|
Handbook crafted to |
LATEST NEWSTrainors on H1N1 now ready to train community health workers nationwide (7 June 2010) Scope and deliverables of RETA 7307 discussed at PSVT workshop in Jakarta (7 June 2010) Dr. Sison to help with project completion review of ADB’s China anti-land degradation project (6 June 2010) PRIMEX experts assist Indonesia, Philippines on developing sustainable livelihoods for coastal communities (6 June 2010) PRIMEX concludes engagement in ADB HIV Project in Indonesia (28 May 2010) Dr. Sison engaged by Oriental Consultants (Japan) for fishing port rehabilitation study (28 May 2010) ADB accepts KBR-PRIMEX’s proposed design of a new irrigation project in the Philippines (28 May 2010) PRIMEX wins new project on CTI, prepares team for key project activities (11 May 2010) PRIMEX to assist in environmental health impact assessment for the Tampakan Copper-Gold Project (11 May 2010) Dr. Sison to lead the design of ADB’s forest management project in Kalimantan, Indonesia (11 May 2010) PRIMEX Consultant to prepare land acquisition and resettlement plans for Kazakhstan road project (11 May 2010)
|
Posted on 30 May 2008 Malaysia's health authorities have taken steps to systematize the country's implementation of World Health Organization (WHO)'s International Health Regulations (IHR) of 2005 (IHR-2005) through the conduct of a workshop that would result in the production of an IHR handbook. Assisted by a team from the ADB-RETA 6305 Project, the International Health Unit of the Disease Control Division of MOH Malaysia held a workshop in Johor Bahru on 7-11 April 2008 to discuss and come up with relevant guidelines for the implementation of IHR 2005. Workshop participants were grouped to work on the following components of the proposed IHR handbook: (i) core capacities; (ii) IHR focal point; (iii) decision tree; (iv) points of entry – airport, seaport, and land crossings; (v) yellow fever/vaccination; and (vi) the Implementation Plan. To be able to make highly-relevant country guidelines, workshop participants made a visit to Stulang Laut, one of the points of entry in Johor. Outputs were collated and reviewed as a whole before they will be finalized into a handbook during a Technical Meeting with the Project team this month. IHR-2005 is a new set of WHO guidelines unanimously adopted by the World Health Assembly on 23 May 2005 and entered into force last 15 June 2007 for all member states. Its broadened purpose and scope are to "prevent, protect against, control and provide a public health response to the international spread of disease and which avoid unnecessary interference with international traffic and trade." The ADB-funded Strengthening Epidemiological Surveillance and Response (ESR) project for Communicable Diseases in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines (TA No. 6305 – REG), being implemented by PRIMEX as the Lead Consultant, has been assisting the three countries align their health guidelines with the new WHO framework to deal with problems of emerging and other cross-border health threats with great international repercussions. |
