Global Strategic Preparedness, Readiness and Response Plan (SPRP)

About Global Strategic Preparedness, Readiness and Response Plan (SPRP):

• It aims at reducing the burden of disease, suffering and deaths from dengue and other Aedes-borne arboviral diseases such as Zika and chikungunya, by fostering a global coordinated response.
• The SPRP comprises five key components namely
  • Emergency coordination: Establishing leadership and coordination activities; 
  • Collaborative surveillance: Developing and using tools for early detection and control of dengue and other Aedes-borne outbreaks, including strengthened indicator and event-based surveillance, epidemiological analysis, laboratory diagnostics, and field investigations; 
  • Community protection: Engaging communities through active dialogue and local adaptation of prevention and response measures, including mosquito population control;
  • Safe and scalable care: Ensuring effective clinical management and resilient health services to ensure patients can receive adequate care and prevent illness and death; and
  • Access to countermeasures: Promoting research and innovation for improved treatments and effective vaccines against these diseases. 
• The Strategic Plan will be implemented over one year until September 2025.
• It is aligned with the Global Vector Control Response 2017–2030, a global strategy to strengthen vector control worldwide, and the Global Arbovirus Initiative, launched in 2022, which focuses on tackling mosquito-borne arboviruses with epidemic potential.

Q1: What is Chikungunya?

It is a viral disease transmitted to humans through the bites of mosquitoes infected with the chikungunya virus. It is most commonly transmitted by mosquitoes, Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti and Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus, which can also transmit dengue and Zika viruses.

Source: WHO launches plan to tackle dengue and other Aedes-borne diseases