Test Module 2

Two years into the World Health Organization’s (WHO) ambitious effort to eliminate industrially produced trans fats from the global food supply, the Organization reports that 58 countries so far have introduced laws that will protect 3.2 billion people from the harmful substance by the end of 2021. But more than 100 countries still need to take actions to remove these harmful substances from their food supplies.

Consumption of industrially produced trans fats are estimated to cause arou

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Regions: Canada , Iran , Nigeria , Turkey , United Kingdom , United States

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New cases of leprosy are decreasing, but not at the anticipated rate. In order to accelerate the annual decline, countries should screen contacts and treat eligible contacts with single-dose rifampicin, as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) in its guidelines.

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Regions: India , Indonesia , Sri Lanka

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• Nine CEPI-supported candidate vaccines are part of the COVAX initiative, with a further nine candidates under evaluation, and procurement conversations on-going with additional producers not currently receiving research and development (R&D) funding through COVAX – giving COVAX the largest and most diverse COVID-19 vaccine portfolio in the world
  
• 80 potentially self-financing countries have submitted non-binding expressions of interest to the Gavi-coor

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  Regions: Afghanistan, Argentina, Canada , Chile, China, France , Ireland , Norway , Tonga , United Kingdom , United States , West Bank , Zambia

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• Updated Buruli ulcer recording and reporting forms are now available

  Accurate, standardized recording and reporting of data are essential for disease control activities. Surveillance is the continued collection, collation and analysis of data and the timely dissemination of information to decision-makers for action to be taken. The new forms being introduced will also help in collecting high-quality data on Buruli ulcer to monitor progress towards the targets of the new WHO road map for neglected tropical diseases 2021–2030.

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• Steps to requesting donated medicines for treatment of epilepsy‐associated tapeworm infection

  Countries implementing control programmes to treat people infected with or at risk of epilepsy-associated tapeworm infection can now benefit from medicines donated to WHO. Under a five-year agreement, the German pharmaceutical company, Bayer, has agreed to donate 2.8 million tablets of niclosamide and 1.5 million tablets of praziquantel to WHO for distribution to affected countries. To benefit from this donation, a few steps and forms need to be completed.

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• OIE endorsement of official control programmes for dog-mediated rabies

  It is well recognized that by developing and implementing organised disease control strategies, countries reduce their related public health and economic burdens. To encourage countries’ use of such strategies, and as part of its continued efforts to support dog-mediated rabies elimination by 2030, the OIE invites its Members, on a voluntary basis, to apply by 18 September 2020 to have their official control programmes for dog-mediated rabies endorsed.

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• Amid continued progress, trachoma elimination programmes set their sights on 2030

  Almost two decades of global work has drastically reduced the number of people at risk of blindness from trachoma from 1.5 billion in 2002 to under 137 million in May 2020 – a 91% decrease. Also in 2002, there were an estimated 7.6 million people with trachomatous trichiasis (TT); by May 2020, this figure had dropped by 74% to 2 million. The 2020 figures represent decreases of 4% and 20%, respectively, since the corresponding 2019 estimates.

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• More than 150 countries engaged in COVID-19 vaccine global access facility

  • 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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  • Independent evaluation of global COVID-19 response announced

    WHO Director-General today announced the initiation of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR) to evaluate the world’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

    In remarks to WHO Member States, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the Panel will be co-chaired by former Prime Minister of New Zea

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    Regions: Liberia , New Zealand

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