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UNDP has launched a new web site for information on fund management and administrative services and includes the website of the Central Fund for Influenza Action.

Please visit: Multi-Donor Trust Funds & Joint Programmes

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UN Response to avian flu and the pandemic threat. For further information, please visit our About section.

Confirmed cases

cases worldwide
Please visit our page on confirmed cases for detailed data on avian influenza outbreaks in humans and animals.

Useful Links

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Avian Influenza

  • Avian influenza (H5N1)
  • Update on outbreaks in animals
  • Poultry production and avian influenza
  • Containment in birds
  • Vaccination
  • Sustainable livelihoods
  • Compensation
  • Wild birds and avian influenza
  • Communication campaigns
  • Confirmed cases

Pandemic Influenza

  • Pandemic: the risk
  • Previous flu pandemics
  • Alert phases
  • Preparing for a pandemic
  • Antiviral drugs
  • Vaccine development
  • Containing a pandemic
  • International Health Regulations
  • Global outbreak and alert
  • Economic costs

Assistance

  • Shaping the Global Response
  • Funding

Preparedness

  • Country preparedness
  • Business preparedness
  • Checklist for business planning
  • Tourism
  • Preparedness for aviation
  • UN preparedness
  • Ethics and pandemic influenza

Monitoring

  • Monitoring responses to avian and human influenza threats

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In the news

  • Through the Looking Glass: WHO Plan for Pandemic

    ThePoultrySite; 8 May 2008 – Experts from the World Health Organisation have this week revised their guidance measures that spell out how a country can prepare itself to tackle a bird flu epidemic on a scale yet unseen.

  • WHO: ‘Threat of a Pandemic Influenza Has Not Diminished’

    eFluxMedia; 8 May 2008 – During a conference held in Geneva on May 6, World Health Organization experts warned on the increased risk of a human bird flu pandemic, as the bird flu virus gains more ground than ever.

  • Vietnam spots new bird flu outbreak

    Xinhua; 8 May 2008 – Bird flu has stricken fowl flocks in Vietnam's southern Can Tho city over the past few days, raising the total number of affected localities in the country to three, according to Vietnam's Department of Animal Health on Thursday.

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