Scope
Scope: This outcome aims to improve the health system’s response capacity to prevent, control, and eliminate communicable diseases, including vaccine-preventable diseases, by ensuring access to interventions throughout the life course and addressing the needs of vulnerable populations. Achieving this outcome will require strengthening response capacity at the first level of care, as well as close intersectoral coordination to address the social and environmental determinants of health and reduce health disparities in collaboration with civil society. Specifically, the following actions will be implemented:
- Strengthen country capacity to ensure access for all to comprehensive, person-centered health services by leveraging evidence-based strategies, primary health care, life-course approaches, and robust governance and financing to effectively prevent, control, and eliminate communicable diseases and sustain elimination gains.
- Advance coordinated efforts to ensure access for all to essential health technologies, such as diagnostics, vaccines, vector control measures, and treatments, and accelerate the adoption and use of innovative solutions to effectively and sustainably prevent, control, and eliminate communicable diseases and related conditions and protect elimination gains.
- Improve information, surveillance, public health laboratory systems and networks, and the capacity to integrate human, animal health, and environmental efforts to anticipate risks, prioritize resources, and ensure effective responses for the prevention, control, and elimination of diseases, outbreaks, and antimicrobial resistance.
- Intensify efforts to control and eliminate communicable diseases and related conditions and safeguard elimination gains, through the incorporation of an approach that recognizes the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health.
- Facilitate effective and comprehensive participation processes that empower civil society and communities to actively and meaningfully engage in planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating integrated strategies and health services to prevent, control, and eliminate communicable diseases and related conditions, while protecting elimination gains. This includes the development of communications strategies to increase public trust and customize messages to specific contexts and populations about vaccines and other countermeasures.
Key Interventions
Provide guidance and technical cooperation to improve access to people-centered health services for all through the development of policies, governance mechanisms, and financing strategies for the prevention, control, and elimination of communicable diseases, and to sustain elimination gains.
Increase access to essential health technologies by strengthening national regulatory systems and supply chains and building national capacities for diagnostics, vaccines, vector control, and treatment.
Enhance country capacity to improve surveillance systems, laboratory services, and information systems by developing and disseminating tools for risk assessment, integrated surveillance, and antimicrobial resistance monitoring to strengthen early warning and response.
Provide leadership for multisectoral coordination and network synergies to support the development of guidance, strategies, and interventions based on an approach that recognizes the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health, working among ministries, civil society, the private sector, and other stakeholders to integrate antimicrobial resistance mitigation and food safety into disease prevention, control, and elimination strategies.
Facilitate participatory processes that empower civil society and communities in the planning, implementation, and monitoring of service delivery, decision-making, and local monitoring to sustain progress in disease prevention, control, and elimination.