NAPAPI: North American Countries Join Forces to Prepare for Pandemics

2 April 2012 - The new “North American Plan for Animal and Pandemic Influenza”(NAPAPI) supports a faster and more coordinated response to influenza pandemics in North America. The NAPAPI was jointly released by US President Barack Obama, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper during the North American Leaders Summit. It lays the ground work for mutual assistance during a response, such as sharing personnel as well as vaccines, drugs, diagnostic tests, known collectively as medical countermeasures. The Plan complements national emergency management plans and builds upon the core principles of the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza, the standards and guidelines of OIE, WHO, including the IHR (2005), as well as the rules and provisions of the WTO agreement – and the NAFTA.

• North American Plan for Animal and Pandemic Influenza (NAPAPI)

14 MARCH 2012 - WHO releases the report of the Second Consultation on the Global Action Plan for Influenza Vaccines (GAP) held on 12-14 July 2011 in Geneva, Switzerland. The report summarizes the overview of GAP activities in the first five years and proposed action points. This information will inform the upcoming development of a GAP strategy for the next five years.

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• More about the Consultation

2 FEBRUARY 2012 - The WHO Pandemic Influenza A(H1N1) Vaccine Deployment Initiative is the first coordinated global response to an influenza pandemic.
Between June 2009 and October 2010, WHO, other technical agencies, donor governments, nongovernmental organizations, and vaccine manufacturers and other private-sector stakeholders all worked together to deliver over 78 million doses of pandemic H1N1 vaccine and associated items such as syringes and safety boxes to 77 countries that would otherwise have had no access.
GAP web site is opening a new document section on the H1N1 vaccine deployment experience.

• Learn more about the H1N1 vaccine deployment initiative

12-14 JULY 2011 - WHO hosted the second Consultation on the Global Action Plan for Influenza Vaccines to review the progress for the first time since it was developed in 2006.
More than 100 representatives attended the meeting to review the progress on the key objectives of the plan and to develop a strategic plan of action for the next five years.
The main focus of the second consultation was to discuss countries' experience on pandemic preparedness and vaccine production.

• More about the Consultation
• Technical materials of the Consultation
• Advocacy materials of the Consultation