Representatives of 26 countries are planning to hold a simultaneous meeting in Washington, DC, and Geneva today to launch a program global health security aimed at better protecting the world against infectious diseases.
Led by the United States and the World Health Organization (WHO), the new effort is an attempt to help lagging nations catch up on efforts to develop plans for face "public health emergency of international concern". In 05, 194 countries have adopted revised International Health Regulations of the WHO, which is the report of June 2012 which detailed how they had strengthened the efforts to assess and respond to outbreaks of dangerous pathogens like the new flu strains , severe acute respiratory syndrome, dengue, Middle East respiratory syndrome and Ebola. Just 40 countries, however, met the deadline.
Consequently, the world is facing "a real vulnerability to storm," said Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, on a conference call yesterday with journalists . "the bottom line here is that we have the ability to both our countries, the United States, and significantly more secure against infectious threats."
Frieden and other officials outlined a nine-point program, at least in outline. It includes a commitment from the United States and other governments to help low- and middle-income and better detect, prevent and respond to infectious diseases by improving laboratory capacity, the introduction of new proven technologies and building communication networks on outbreaks. Frieden said the US budget proposal President Barack Obama for 2015, which will be released early Mars will have $ 45 million in new funding to support the effort. Other high-income countries have pledged to put money on the barrelhead, too.
Laurie Garrett, senior researcher for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, applauded the new agenda, reflecting an idea that she advocated in October. "It just makes sense," said Garrett. "If countries can not identify new diseases, and eventually these diseases could join us." But she is worried that the United States and other donor countries will not pony enough money. "To pull this off you need to spend more than $ 100 million per year," Garrett said. "It will take 5 or 6 years of good, hard, hard work to reach everybody target knows that we must achieve."
today's meeting is closed to the media and off-the-record, but individual countries will be free to describe their contributions to the conversation.
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