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One Health Coordination Platform Governance Manual – 2nd Edition
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This second version incorporates valuable lessons learned from previous health emergencies, aligns with international best practices, and reflects our national commitment to improving coordination, transparency, and accountability within the One Health framework. It provides clear guidance on institutional structures, roles, and responsibilities in order to ensure that all actors, from national ministries to county-level stakeholders,…

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National One Health Strategic Plan – September 2018
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During the strategic planning process, stakeholders assessed the existing strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats, including those affecting the One Health Coordination Platform specifically, multisectoral efforts in general, and sector-specific areas of laboratory, surveillance, preparedness and response, and capacity building. This critical review of the One Health approach in the context of Liberia led to…

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National Rabies Strategic Plan – 2023-2027 – Liberia
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In Liberia, dog rabies is endemic, and surveillance systems and disease control activities are still being strengthened. However, rabies vaccination in humans has been documented since 1949. After the civil war from 1989-2003 and the devastating Ebola outbreak from 2014-2015, healthcare services and infrastructure were substantially weakened. Dog-related rabies has been eliminated from most developed…

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NPHIL Provides Public Health Advisory, Confirms Additional New Mpox Cases with Zero (0) Deaths
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MONROVIA, May-31-2025: – In the wake of the increase in cases of Mpox in the sub-region and Liberia, the Mpox National Incident Management System (IMS), has confirmed additional new cases of Mpox. These testing results submitted by the National Reference Laboratory (NRL) of the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL) bring to sixty-nine (69)…

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