International Health Regulations in practice: Focus on yellow fever and poliomyelitis

Yellow fever and public health in Brazil.

483 Yellow fever is likely to disappear from the news in Brazil, either because the dreaded epidemic has not materialized or because other news has gained greater visibility. The treatment given to the issue by the mass media has often been confusing and superficial, thereby helping feed the public's feeling of insecurity by featuring partial and incomplete or out-of-context data, besides comme...

World Health Organization Perspective on Implementation of International Health Regulations

In 2005, the International Health Regulations were adopted at the 58th World Health Assembly; in June 2007, they were entered into force for most countries. In 2012, the world is approaching a major 5-year milestone in the global commitment to ensure national capacities to identify, investigate, assess, and respond to public health events. In the past 5 years, existing programs have been booste...

The International Health Regulations and beyond.

The international community has joined together to form a world trade system based on the rule of law. Although imperfect, the world trade system contains enforceable norms designed to facilitate international economic activity. Infectious diseases pose as great a threat to the well being of nations. Yet, global health governance remains weak or nonexistent. As The Lancet Infectious Diseases ha...

Ebola lessons guide International Health Regulations review.

Diseases subject to the international health regulations.