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Planning and response

A framework for global outbreak alert and response (pdf 79kb)

This document puts forward an international framework for responding to global outbreaks of infectious diseases.

It addresses a number of related issues including:

- Background information on infectious disease outbreaks
- Current actions by the international community to contain outbreaks
- Gaps, constraints and challenges in current global alert and response arrangements
- The need for a establishing global network to respond to outbreaks
- The functions and structure of such a global network

 

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