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Global health security is a global public good -- damage to human lives and livelihoods. Yet the global making each of us safer depends on making all of us community spends relatively little to protect populations safer; holes in one community's defenses are holes in all from the risks of pandemics.
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, under Building and sustaining strong health systems is the leadership of the UN Secretary General, should re- achievable with leadership and commitment, at the nainforce and sustain international focus and actions to tional, provincial, and local levels, even in relatively poor protect human lives and livelihoods from the threat of countries. Countries like Uganda have demonstrated infectious diseases by: that creating resilient and effective public health systems that can identify and contain infectious disease outbreaks Recommendation A.1: Committing to implement- is not beyond reach.
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develop an agreed-on, precise definition and benchmarks for national core capabilities and functioning, To underscore the importance of pandemic prebased on, and implemented through, the International paredness as a way of protecting economic growth Health Regulations and building on the experiences and stability, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) of other efforts, including the Global Health Secu- should routinely incorporate the results of the external rity Agenda and the World Organization for Animal assessment of national core capacities in its economic Health Terrestrial Animal Health Code by the end of evaluations of individual countries.
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should provide technical support Recommendation B.9: The World Bank should conto countries to fill gaps in their core capacities and vene other multilateral donors (including the African achieve benchmark performance. (Technical sup- Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, New port will be coordinated through a WHO Center for Development Bank, United Nations Development Health Emergency Preparedness and Response; see Program, and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank)
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The composition of the TGB, which will inRecommendation C.1: By the end of 2016, the World clude representation from other parts of the UN system, Health Organization should create a Center for will facilitate this. Where a potential pandemic goes beHealth Emergency Preparedness and Response -- yond the capacity of WHO and/or becomes a broader integrating action at headquarters, regional, and coun- humanitarian crisis -- or where the health challenges are try office levels -- to lead the global effort toward out- just one element of a broader crisis -- there should be an break preparedness and response.
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It also revealed many shortcomings in Recommendation C.8: By the end of 2016, the World approaches taken at both the national and global level to Health Assembly should agree on new mechanisms for engage with such players. WHO and individual national holding governments publicly accountable for perforgovernments should proactively create mechanisms to mance under the International Health Regulations engage with the various categories of non-state actors on and broader global health risk framework, as detailed preparedness and response.
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for intellectual property management, data shar ing and product liability; and approaches to vacRecommendation D.1: By the end of 2016, the World cine manufacture, stockpiling, and distribution. Health Organization should establish an independent Pandemic Product Development Committee, account BUILDING A GLOBAL FRAMEWORK TO able to the Technical Governing Board, to galvanize COUNTER INFECTIOUS DISEASE CRISES acceleration of relevant research and development, For far too long, infectious disease has been the ned efine priorities, and mobilize and allocate resources.
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. grading national pandemic preparedness capabilities CDC.
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