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LOS ANGELES, CA, July 7 2011 – International Medical Corps is working with the Republic of Philippines and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to improve the country’s ability to respond to public health crisis and potential socio‐economic disruptions brought on by influenza pandemics and other global disasters.

This report covers the period 01 January 2010 to 31 December 2010.

GENEVA, 17 April 2011 – After a week of negotiations continued through Friday night and into Saturday morning, an open-ended working-group meeting of Member States successfully agreed upon a Framework that ensures that in a pandemic, influenza virus samples will be shared with partners who need the information to take steps to protect public health.

The working-group meeting was convened under the authority of the World Health Assembly and coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Since its emergence in April 2009, pandemic influenza A(H1N1) 2009 virus has affected all parts of the world, causing the first influenza pandemic since 1968. Following the observation that 1 or 2 epidemic periods had occurred in most countries and in most WHO Regions, WHO declared on 10 August 2010 that the world was moving into the post-pandemic period. Based on experiences with past pandemics, the pandemic influenza A(H1N1) 2009 virus was expected to take on the

- 41 cholera cases reported , 27 in retrospect

- No confirmed measles outbreaks in the last 4 weeks

- No new Influenza A H1N1(2009)cases reported in the last 5 weeks

Sixty-fifth General Assembly
Plenary
61st Meeting (AM)

Meeting Also Hears Introduction of Resolution on Follow-up To Commemoration of Anniversary of Abolition of Transatlantic Slave Trade

Calling for more attention to health as an important policy issue on the international agenda, especially in meeting the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, General Assembly delegates today recognized that challenges in global health demanded persistent attention, urged States to consider health in the formulation of foreign policy and

- 7 new cholera cases reported in Makonde

- 246 suspect measles cases reported

- More Rubella IgM positive being reported compared to Measles IgM positive cases

- No new Influenza A H1N1(2009)cases reported

- No new cholera cases reported

- 203 suspect measles cases reported

- Further Decline in Influenza A H1N1(2009)cases reported

The People's Republic of China, with a population of 1.3 billion people, is the most populous country in the world, and has both one of the most dynamic and fastest growing economies, while at the same time very marked disparities in income distribution, health status and other vulnerability indicators. Extreme poverty remains an ever-present reality in some parts of the country, regardless of China's rapid economic progress.

In recent years, China has experienced a wide range of severe disasters, including the 8-magnitude earthquake