July 2023 © Royal Centre for Disease Control, Ministry of Health Bhutan Interesting and informative news from our trusted teams around the world delivered to your inbox. Enjoy and feel free to share; we value every subscriber. The current outbreaks of bird flu have caused devastation in animal populations and harmed farmers’ livelihoods and the food trade. These outbreaks pose ongoing risks to humans. The PIP Framework has held a global meeting to coordinate activities under the High-Level Implementation Plan for the period 2024-2030. This article traces the journey of Bhutan's improvements to laboratory standards leading to National Influenza Centre recognition. A workshop to strengthen pandemic preparedness in the Western Balkans and Republic of Moldova introduced the new Preparedness and Resilience for Emerging Threats (PRET) initiative . Timor-Leste has gone through a WHO/US CDC Thailand training workshop to improve the quality of their data. Genetic characterization training to enhance respiratory disease surveillance in the Americas was conducted in Panama.
Six Francophone countries participated in workshops to get familiarized with WHO’s Preparedness and Resilience for Emerging Threats (PRET) initiative and draft a national respiratory pathogen pandemic preparedness plan. In April 2023, with support from the PIP Framework Partnership Contribution, Mongolia conducted a three-day multi-sectoral workshop and simulation exercise. |