Mellom handel og smittevern
Hvordan kan vi begrense spredningen av smittsomme sykdommer mellom landene uten å hemme handel og reising? Denne måneden feirer vi tiårsjubileet for et forsøk på en løsning.
"IHR"
Kommer Svartedauen tilbake?
Blant dyr i regnskogen finnes flere hundre tusen virus som kanskje kan smitte mennesker. Vil ett av dem forårsake en like stor katastrofe som Svartedauen?
World Health Organization will improve epidemic preparedness, detection and response
The World Health Organization proposes wide-reaching changes in six areas to improve the global preparedness and control of epidemics. The proposal comes after several critical reviews of the response to the 2014-15 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Committee will review International Health Regulations (IHR)
An international committee of 16 members, including Preben Aavitsland of Epidemi, will review the effectiveness of the IHR before and under the Ebola outbreak.
Spredning av poliovirus en global folkehelsetrussel
I dag 5. mai 2014 erklærte WHO at den økte spredningen av poliovirus i 2014 er en alvorlig hendelse av betydning for internasjonal folkehelse i henhold til Det internasjonale helsereglementet, som er en slags internasjonal smittevernlov. Dette er den første slike erklæring siden svineinfluensapandemien i 2009.
Challenges in IHR implementation
The International Health Regulations (2005) is a good instrument for global health preparedness. Donor countries will find in the IHR many reasons for and ways to investing in public health systems. These were the messages in Preben Aavitsland’s presentation to an international audience at a meeting at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health on December 12, 2013.
WHO convenes Emergency Committee for MERS
On July 5, WHO announced that the organization is appointing an Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (IHR) for the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). This is the first such committee to be appointed since the committee for Swine Flu in April 2009.