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The FAO-OIE-WHO collaboration

Sharing responsibilities and coordinating global activities to address health risks at the animal-human-ecosystems interfaces








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    The FAO-OIE-WHO Collaboration 2017
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    This document sets a strategic direction for FAO-OIE-WHO to take together and proposes a long term basis for international collaboration aimed at coordinating global activities to address health risks at the human-animal-ecosystems interfaces. FAO, OIE and WHO have been working together for years to address risks at the human-animal-ecosystems interface and their collaborative work was formally laid down in 2010 in the FAO/ OIE/WHO Tripartite Concept Note. This Note continues to be a reference f or the Tripartite on the shared responsibilities for addressing health risks through multi-sectoral collaboration. The Tripartite is advocating for effective, multi-sectoral collaboration at the local, national, regional and global levels and is providing guidance on complex issues. This “One Health” approach recognizes that the health of people is connected to the health of animals and the environment.
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    GLEWS+ The Joint FAO–OIE–WHO Global Early Warning System for health threats and emerging risks at the human–animal–ecosystems interface
    A concept paper
    2013
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    The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), and the World Health Organization (WHO) recognize a joint responsibility to minimize the health, social and economic impact from diseases arising at the human-animal interface by preventing, detecting, controlling, eliminating or reducing disease risks to humans originating directly or indirectly from domestic or wild animals, and their environments...

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