Through the initiative, WHO will use a mode of transmission method to information international locations in pandemic planning, provided that many capacities and capabilities are widespread amongst teams of pathogens.
To assist international locations higher put together for future pandemics, ICAO contributed to a brand new initiative that was launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) to offer steering on built-in planning for “responding to any respiratory pathogen such as influenza or coronaviruses.” The new Preparedness and Resilience for Emerging Threats Initiative, or PRET, incorporates the most recent instruments and approaches for shared studying and collective motion established in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic and different latest public well being emergencies.
Through the initiative, WHO will use a mode of transmission method to information international locations in pandemic planning, provided that many capacities and capabilities are widespread amongst teams of pathogens. PRET solutions the decision for technical steering and help for selling and strengthening built-in preparedness and response, as outlined in World Health Assembly resolutions.
ICAO has cooperated with the WHO on health-issues associated to aviation for many years. This cooperation focuses on the aviation features of pandemic response, together with points associated to coordination and collaboration, preparedness planning, mitigating transmission, managing suspected circumstances on board, sustaining inflight security and facilitating border crossing.
The COVID-19 pandemic and different well being emergencies have proven that international locations should be operationally prepared to answer infectious illness threats, with tailor-made preparedness plans in hand and higher coordination and collaboration with different sectors akin to aviation, customs and immigration, different modes of transport and agriculture.
Preparedness, prevention, and response actions should not be the province of the well being sector alone,” mentioned Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “Just as health emergencies have impacts across many sectors, so must our preparedness and response efforts span sectors, disciplines and pathogens. It is critical, too, that community engagement and equity are the centre of our efforts, especially for those populations that are marginalized and most at risk.”
“Assuring a safe, sustainable, and resilient recovery for international air services is at the heart of ICAO’s vision for the future of the global flight network,” remarked Dr. Ansa Jordaan, ICAO’s Chief of Aviation Medicine, who led ICAO’s contributions to this initiative. “The WHO’s Preparedness and Resilience for Emerging Threats Initiative will help mitigate both the health impacts of future health emergencies, and prevent the catastrophic effects on air connectivity that were seen in the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. The initiative is an illustration of the crucial importance of ICAO’s highly valued collaboration (involving not only the CAPSCA programme, but various other sections within ICAO) with the WHO towards assisting governments in their efforts to achieve a globally coordinated response to these global challenges.”
PRET is an evolution in WHO’s method to pandemic preparedness by way of the appliance of a mode of transmission lens, quite than a concentrate on particular illnesses. WHO will proceed to develop and disseminate steering on particular illnesses as wanted.
The PRET Initiative ushers in a brand new period for pandemic preparedness and represents an evolution of WHO’s core actions to help all Member States in strengthening well being emergency preparedness, prevention, and response capacities and capabilities. The initiative can even serve to operationalize the targets and provisions of the Pandemic Accord, which is presently being negotiated by WHO Member States.
Call to Action
Announcing the PRET initiative, the WHO additionally issued a Call to Action to “accelerate preparedness for pandemics and emerging threats globally.” This Call to Action, and the WHO’s PRET announcement in full, can be found right here. All of ICAO’s COVID-19-related steering to states, operators, and the neighborhood are freely out there by way of this devoted portal.
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