National Action Plan for Health Security 2019-2023.

The National Action Plan for Health Security 2019-2023 is organized in six chapters: Background (1); Strategic situational assessment (2); Strategic Framework and Implementation Approach (3); Implementation Plan (4); Costing and financial plan (5); and Monitoring and evaluation (6).
With the primary goal of achieving a secured capacity that ensures community resilience for public health threats and their impact, the plan has set out three strategic pillars which will help the country achieve its mission and vision in line with prevention, detection, and response of public health threats. These are: 1) Preparedness and Coordination; 2) Detection Capacity and Communication; 3) Response Capacity.
These strategic pillars contain more than 74 objectives under which a set of activities were identified. These activities can be categorized into four main thematic areas of IHR-health security: Prevent, Detect, Response, and Other IHR-related hazards. The proposed objectives and activities under will be implemented in a five-year period (2019 – 2023) through the involvement of different sectors in a One Health approach.
In particular the Plan aims at implement measures and programs to tackle antimicrobial resistance, strengthen the knowledge and evidence on antimicrobial use and resistance through one-health surveillance and research, administer and control the quality, safety and efficacy of veterinary drugs and biological products; build and maintain adequate food systems and infrastructures to respond to and manage food safety risks along the entire food chain, including during emergencies; strengthen education and information to build culture of health, safety, and resilience and following good management practice (biosecurity and biosafety), among others.