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Joint National Action Plan for Health Security (NAPHS)

With the adoption of IHR (2005) Liberia has been reporting Public Health Events of International Concern (PHEIC) to the World Health Organization (WHO). One such event was the unprecedented outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in 2014. The IHR (2005) confers obligations to Member States to annually self-report the progress of the implementation to the World Health Assembly (WHA). Following the EVD outbreak, the WHA recommended countries to shift from exclusive self-assessment to a strategy of all-inclusive internal assessment and Joint External Evaluation (JEE) followed by the development and implementation of a National Action Plan for Public Health Security (NAPHS