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Conference title

2010 International Ministerial Conference on Animal and Pandemic Influenza: The Way Forward
(IMCAPI Hanoi 2010)

Purpose of the Ministerial Conference 20-21 April 2010

The conference will set the scene for a worldwide effort, over the next 20 years, for tackling threats to people’s health that will emerge from domestic and wild animals within different environments.

At the conference, Government Ministers responsible for Agriculture and Livestock, Public Health, Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation will have a unique opportunity to:

  • review progress with responses to highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1, the H1N1 influenza pandemic and other emerging global health threats;

  • agree on actions needed for both national governments and the global community to be ready to tackle these threats; and

  • chart a way forward to ensure that these actions are addressed in ways that protect the health and well-being on the world’s human and animal populations.


Conference Objectives

Objective 1:

Ministers reaffirm the need for sustained appropriate efforts to address Highly Pathogenic Influenzas (including H5N1), and other high impact health threats arising at the animal-human-environment interface between now and 2030, through “one health”  strategies at national, regional and global levels

Objective 2:

Ministers reaffirm the importance of adequate readiness for pandemics and other high impact threats to human health between now and 2030 through continued strengthening of institutional capacity for contingency planning and response at national, regional and global levels,

Objective 3:

Ministers agree options for a forward strategy (between now and 2030) to implement

  • Sustained and appropriate responses to Highly Pathogenic Animal Influenzas including H5N1;

  • World-wide readiness to respond to pandemics and other high impact health threats arising at the animal-human-environment interface;

  • National, regional and global capacity (including institutional mechanisms) to assess and address drivers for the emergence of high impact health threats (including zoonotic diseases) at the animal-human-environment interface

Objective 4:

Ministers start to discuss how this forward strategy could be resourced, implemented and monitored