Emergencies

Emergencies

Ready to Respond: WHO is committed to addressing Emergencies and accelerating efforts to eliminate priority diseases and promoting surveillance

Guided by key policies, regulations, actions plans and frameworks such as The Emergency Response Framework, National Action Plan on AMR containment, National Food Safety Policy and National Blood Transfusion Policy; WHO supports the Government of Maldives in helping to build new partnerships and mobilize technical resources, strengthen national capacity for integrated diseases surveillance with enhanced laboratory systems and strengthen advocacy efforts to ensure the country is Ready to Respond.

 

 

Outbreaks and Emergencies in the South-East Asia

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Focus Areas

Emergency preparedness

Support the national and subnational level capacity building process on emergency preparedness by considering that the community will be first responders and implementation of the Emergency Response Framework.

AMR, IHR and food safety

Support implementation of the National Action Plan on AMR: 2017–2022 including advocating for implementation of one health approach. Enhance national capacity to attain and sustain IHR core capacity including effective implementation of recommendations of JEE. Strengthen institutional capacity to implement the National Food Safety Policy: 2017–2026.

Enabling advocacy platforms for disease elimination

Enabling advocacy platforms for disease elimination through accelerating progress towards the targeted elimination of rubella, TB, hepatitis, mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis