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Mexico is, so far, the only country validated by the World Health Organization (WHO) for having eliminated dog-mediated human rabies as a public health problem. To encourage countries that have implemented elimination programmes as recommended by WHO and the Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), international procedures have been developed jointly by WHO and OIE, following a One Health approach. The procedures involve several steps in the preparation, submission and review of a dossier.

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Regions: Mexico

Topics: Climate and Environment, Global Health, Science, Technology, and Innovation

The fourth meeting of the Emergency Committee convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005) regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) took place on Friday, 31 July 2020 from 12:00 to 17:45 Geneva time (CEST). 

Proceedings of the meeting

Members and advisors of the Emergency Committee were convened by vid

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Regions: United Kingdom

Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health, Science, Technology, and Innovation

• Seventy-five countries submit expressions of interest to COVAX Facility, joining up to 90 further countries which could be supported by the COVAX Advance Market Commitment (AMC)
• The COVAX Facility, and the AMC within it, is designed to guarantee rapid, fair and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for every country in the world, rich and poor, to make rapid progress towards slowing the pandemic 
  
• Interest from governments represen

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  Regions: Argentina, Canada , Norway , United Kingdom

  Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation

• WHO and UNICEF warn of a decline in vaccinations during COVID-19

  WHO and UNICEF call for immediate efforts to vaccinate all children as new data shows that, before the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine coverage stalled at 85 per cent for nearly a decade, with 14 million unvaccinated infants yearly

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  Regions: Ethiopia , Haiti , Nepal

  Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Global Health

• Public statement for collaboration on COVID-19 vaccine development

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  Regions: Argentina, Canada , Chad , China, Norway , United Kingdom

  Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health, Science, Technology, and Innovation

• A meeting on digital innovations, TB and implementation research organised by WHO and the European Respiratory Society

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  Regions: Tanzania , Ukraine , United Kingdom

  Topics: Global Health, Science, Technology, and Innovation