GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY AGENDA - DEPOPULATION AGENDA

GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY AGENDA

"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth."
Revelation 6:8

6-8 November 2018 – Bali, Indonesia: 5th GHSA Ministerial Meeting: “Advancing Global Partnerships”

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ABOUT

The Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) was launched in February 2014 to advance a world safe and secure from infectious disease threats, to bring together nations from all over the world to make new, concrete commitments, and to elevate global health security as a national leaders-level priority. The G7 endorsed the GHSA in June 2014, and Finland and Indonesia hosted commitment development meetings to spur action in May and August.

GHSA acknowledges the essential need for a multilateral and multi-sectoral approach to strengthen both the global capacity and nations' capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious diseases threats whether naturally occurring, deliberate, or accidental – capacity that once established would mitigate the devastating effects of Ebola, MERS, other highly pathogenic infectious diseases, and bioterrorism events.

Through a partnership of nearly 50 nations, international organizations, and non-governmental stakeholders, GHSA is facilitating collaborative, capacity-building efforts to achieve specific and measurable targets around biological threats, while accelerating achievement of the core capacities required by the World Health Organization's (WHO's) International Health Regulations (IHR), the World Organization of Animal Health's (OIE) Performance of Veterinary Services Pathway, and other relevant global health security frameworks. This partnership is led and supported by a GHSA Steering Group composed of 10 member nations. The Chair of this Steering Group is filled by a different nation each year.

In addition to individual countries, advisory partners include the WHO, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the OIE, Interpol, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), and the European Union.

VISION

Our vision is a world safe and secure from global health threats posed by infectious diseases – where we can prevent or mitigate the impact of naturally occurring outbreaks and accidental or intentional releases of dangerous pathogens, rapidly detect and transparently report outbreaks when they occur, and employ an interconnected global network that can respond effectively to limit the spread of infectious disease outbreaks in humans and animals, mitigate human suffering and the loss of human life, and reduce economic impact.

Global health security is a shared responsibility that cannot be achieved by a single actor or sector of government. Its success depends upon collaboration among the health, security, environment. and agriculture sectors.

COUNTRY ASSESSMENTS

External assessments are a vital tool to measure progress toward increased capacity, and a continued, transparent, objective assessment process is necessary to validate our collective success in GHSA implementation. The GHSA Steering Group has developed a voluntary assessment process that can independently assess the health security of each country, as well as offer assistance in determining the measures necessary for improving health security. Evaluations can be used to strengthen the countries' own efforts in the detection, prevention, and control of communicable diseases and biological threats, as well as provide a mechanism to match gaps in capacity to resources.

Review existing country assessments.

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MEMBERSHIP

GHSA was launched in February 2014. Since then, membership in GHSA has grown to include over 50 countries, each committed to leading or contributing to one or more Action Packages. GHSA is coordinated by a multilateral Steering Group of 10 countries: Canada, Chile, Finland, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Republic of Korea, and the United States. WHO, FAO, OIE, and other international organizations serve as advisors to this Steering Group.

Membership is open to all countries, recognizing that GHSA is an action-oriented initiative where members focus their efforts on achieving specific targets. All GHSA countries have flexibility in how they address their commitments, with countries working nationally, regionally, and/or globally toward the common targets. A complete list of GHSA member countries can be found below,

Countries interested in joining GHSA should contact the Italian Secretariat. New commitments should be addressed to the current GHSA Chair, noting which Action Package(s) you would like to join and providing points of contact at both the technical and political level.

For more information, please contact the Italian Secretariat ([email protected]).

Afghanistan
Argentina
Australia
Azerbaijan
Bangladesh
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Côte d'Ivoire
Democratic Republic of Congo
Denmark
Ethiopia
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Haiti
India
Indonesia
Israel
Italy
Japan
Jordan
Kenya
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Liberia
Malaysia
Mali
Mexico
Mongolia
Netherlands
Nigeria
Norway
Pakistan
Peru
Philippines
Portugal
Republic of the Congo
Republic of Korea
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Singapore
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Thailand
Togo
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United Republic of Tanzania
United States of America
Viet Nam
Yemen
Zimbabwe

*Countries updated as of 20 May 2018

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COUNTRY ROADMAPS

A number of countries have agreed to share their own Roadmaps for pursuing and achieving the GHSA targets, in order to help inform other countries that may be considering undertaking this planning effort.

Bangladesh [PDF, 308KB]
Cambodia [PDF, 2.8MB]
Cameroon [PDF, 300KB]
Côte d'Ivoire [PDF, 360KB]
Ethiopia [PDF, 327KB]

Guinea [PDF, 800KB]
Kenya [PDF, 432KB]
Liberia [PDF, 712KB]
Mali [PDF, 304KB]

Senegal [PDF, 715KB]
Sierra Leone [PDF, 461KB]
Uganda [PDF, 1.0MB]
Vietnam [PDF, 943KB]

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