One Health Joint Plan of Action

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Context

• Recently, One Health Joint Plan of Action was launched by the Quadripartite – the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH, founded as OIE).

One Health

• One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimise the health of humans, animals, plants and ecosystems.
• It is the primary approach for addressing the complex health challenges facing our society, such as ecosystem degradation, food system failures, infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

Read a comprehensive Article on one Health: https://www.iasgyan.in/blogs/one-health-concept

One Health Joint Plan of Action

• One Health Joint Plan of Action aims to create a framework to integrate systems and capacity so that we can collectively better prevent, predict, detect, and respond to health threats. Ultimately, this initiative seeks to improve the health of humans, animals, plants, and the environment, while contributing to sustainable development.
• The five-year plan (2022-2026) focuses on supporting and expanding capacities in six areas:

1. One Health capacities for health systems,
2. Emerging and re-emerging zoonotic epidemics,
3. Endemic zoonotic,
4. Neglected tropical and vector-borne diseases,
5. Food safety risks,
6. Antimicrobial resistance and the environment.

Conclusion

• The One Health Joint Plan of Action, developed through a participatory process, provided a set of activities that aim to strengthen collaboration, communication, capacity building and coordination. These will be equally applicable on across all sectors responsible for addressing health concerns.

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/environment/big-push-for-one-health-fao-unep-who-animal-health-body-lay-out-plan-85511