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Based on our experience and given the ground realities,
we have identified the following principles that guide our action:
Prioritization
Select priority communicable diseases to focus the
limited resources and capacity available to ensure maximization of the impact
on health and socio economic development. Continue and strengthen the
tradition of enlisting political commitment in health problems. Mobilize
additional resources by using advocacy plans and implementing them in the
countries of the region.
Evidence-based
Planning and Formulation of Strategic Framework
Develop and refine the regional strategic plans that
would guide the work of the CDS department and could work as a framework for
action at country level – leading to country-specific plan of action.
Identify interventions that work and which are cost effective and scale them
up for the control of communicable diseases. Enhance the research capacity to
address the problems with the help of WHO CCs and national centers of
expertise.
ConsensusBuilding
To guide and monitor action, Regional technical advisory
groups have been established to provide technical guidance in the control,
elimination and eradication programmes.
Emphasis on
Integrated and Collaborative Approach
Promote and support intercountry
collaboration and horizontal cooperation amongst the Member States.
Interdepartmental collaboration is critical in the effective control of
communicable diseases. Harmonize collaboration with other departments, the
elimination and eradication of diseases preventable by vaccination and the
control of childhood communicable diseases. Increasingly adopt where
relevant, an integrated approach with an increased focus on addressing the
cross cutting issues, strengthening of the public health laboratories and
containment of antimicrobial drug resistance.
Focusing on
Communication
Increase the focus on communication, media interaction
and information technology to become the thrust areas of the department for risk
communication and management.
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