Surveillance and response to avian and pandemic influenza by national health authorities of paraguaythe proposal of paraguay will be based on components 1 and 2 - the current sars COV-2 pandemic has…

Surveillance and response to avian and pandemic influenza by national health authorities of paraguaythe proposal of paraguay will be based on components 1 and 2 - the current sars COV-2 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of having robust surveillance systems. What is more, each season of influenza becomes a challenge for surveillance systems, since none is equal to another in terms of magnitude and severity, causing serious consequences each year in health systems and the economy. To this is added the constant threat of a new pandemic. This is why countries must maintain their capacity to conduct routine influenza surveillance and detect and respond to highly pathogenic viruses transmissible among humans, including epidemiologic and virologic detection and to respond and monitor influenza virus changes, as well as identify outbreaks of severe respiratory illness syndromes. The purpose of this proposal is to obtain support to maintain and improve the results of the influenza surveillance system. Another purpose is to strengthen ties with the national and international network, especially the who, by participating in the global influenza surveillance network and sharing strains, clinical, and epidemiological data. Finally, the opportunity will support the monitoring highly pathogenic viruses and bacteria transmissible to humans and identification of outbreaks of severe respiratory illness. The activities presented in the proposal are aligned with the priorities of strengthening the global capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to outbreaks of the disease and other events with potential risk to public health, such as an influenza pandemic. Improving and maintaining the country's surveillance system and its network can impact the monitoring and detection capacity of a new virus, which in turn could mitigate the potentially devastating effect of an influenza pandemic. The proposal of paraguay will be based on components 1 and 2:1) to build and/or maintain influenza surveillance and monitor novel viruses in animals (influenza activities); 2) to implement non-influenza pathogen surveillance (non-infl uenza viral and bacterial respiratory and vaccine-preventable pathogen).