Global Strategic Preparedness, Readiness and Response Plan (SPRP)

07.10.2024

Global Strategic Preparedness, Readiness and Response Plan (SPRP)

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Recently, the Global Strategic Preparedness, Readiness and Response Plan (SPRP) to tackle dengue and other Aedes-borne arboviruses was launched by the World Health Organisation.

About Global Strategic Preparedness, Readiness and Response Plan (SPRP):

• It aims at reducing the burden of disease, suffering and deaths from dengue and other Aedes-borne arboviral diseases such as Zika and chikungunya, by fostering a global coordinated response. 
• The Strategic Plan will be implemented over one year until September 2025.
• It is aligned with the Global Vector Control Response 2017–2030, a global strategy to strengthen vector control worldwide, and the Global Arbovirus Initiative, launched in 2022, which focuses on tackling mosquito-borne arboviruses with epidemic potential.
• The SPRP comprises five key components namely:
  • Emergency coordination:Establishing leadership and coordination activities;
  • Collaborative surveillance:Developing and using tools for early detection and control of dengue and other Aedes-borne outbreaks, including strengthened indicator and event-based surveillance, epidemiological analysis, laboratory diagnostics, and field investigations;
  • Community protection:Engaging communities through active dialogue and local adaptation of prevention and response measures, including mosquito population control;
  • Safe and scalable care:Ensuring effective clinical management and resilient health services to ensure patients can receive adequate care and prevent illness and death;
  • Access to countermeasures:Promoting research and innovation for improved treatments and effective vaccines against these diseases.

Key facts about The World Health Organization

• It came into effect on April 7, 1948.
• It is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that is responsible for international public health.
• The WHO's mission is to achieve health for all people.
• It states that health is a human right that every human being is entitled to, without distinction of race, religion, or political belief, an individual’s economic or social condition.
• It also states that the health of all peoples is fundamental to the attainment of peace and security.
• The WHO’s headquarters is based in Geneva, Switzerland with six regional and 150 country offices across the world.
• It is a democratic organization with a role to guide the response, develop guidance, but not to go into a country to help address a specific health threat.

                                                            Source: Financial Express