Overview
This guidance updates and replaces the “Pandemic Influenza Risk Management: WHO Interim Guidance” published in 2013, which was a revision of the “Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response: a WHO Guidance Document” published in 2009.
The main updates from the 2013 interim guidance are:
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Alignment with other relevant United Nations policies for crisis and emergency management, and
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Inclusion of the significant development in recent years of the strategies for pandemic vaccine response during the start of a pandemic.
Key highlights of the 2013 interim guidance from 2009 guidance include the following:
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Focus upon risk assessment at national level to guide national level actions
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Revised approach to global phases
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Flexibility through uncoupling of national actions from…
