What does IHR stand for?

In addition, the main agenda items of the WHA included Implementation of International Health Regulations 2005, Blindness and Visual impairment, Primary Health Care, social Determinants of Health, Health related Millennium Development Goals, Climate Change and Health, Intellectual Property, Polio Eradication, HIV/AIDs, Health System Strengthening, Maternal and Newborn Child Health (MNCH), Health Technologies and Multilingualism.

The assembly is also due to examine the implementation of International Health Regulations, which since 2005 oblige countries such as Mexico to swiftly raise the alarm about potential international health threats.

coordinator for influenza, said countries are required under the 2005 International Health Regulations to inform the World Health Organization of the public health rationale behind measures like China's detention of Mexican travelers over swine flu concerns.

Fukuda said WHO will take into account the revised International Health Regulations in updating its pandemic preparedness plan, which is expected to be published by the end of the year.

00 Paperback RM301 Perhaps the most important innovation in organization's report is that the 2005 revision of the International Health Regulations came into effect in June 2007.

The WHO has drafted new International Health Regulations 2005, scheduled to come into force in June 2007, and to which Canada is a signatory.

He said the bill aims to bring the local legal provisions in line with the requirements of the International Health Regulations (2005) of the World Health Organization.

In an effort to help countries improve their readiness, WHO introduced a new set of international health regulations this summer.