Ensuring health security in the African region - Emergency preparedness and response flagship programmes
This report presents the WHO flagship programmes to support Member States in the African region to prepare for, detect and respond to public health emergencies. They are the result of extensive consultations with more than 30 African government ministers, technical actors, partners across the continent as well as regional institutions such as the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, whose contributions have shaped the priority activities.
The health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted pre-existing challenges and weaknesses facing health Emergency Preparedness and Response (EPR) and health security in African countries. Globally, the African region reports the heaviest burden of public health emergencies with more than a hundred major public health events taking place annually3, causing damage to health and economic systems in its countries.
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