[Ip-health] Excerpt on stockpiling from US National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza

[Mike Palmedo]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/pandemic-influenza.html#section8

National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza

The White House
November 1, 2005

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Producing and Stockpiling Vaccines, Antivirals and Medical Material

In combination with traditional public health measures, vaccines and
antiviral drugs form the foundation of our infection control strategy.
Vaccination is the most important element of this strategy, but we
acknowledge that a two-pronged strategy incorporating both vaccines and
antivirals is essential. To establish production capacity and stockpiles
in support of our containment and response strategies, we will:

* Encourage nations to develop production capacity and stockpiles to
support their response needs, to include pooling of efforts to create
regional capacity.

* Encourage and subsidize the development of state-based antiviral
stockpiles to support response activities.

* Ensure that our national stockpile and stockpiles based in states and
communities are properly configured to respond to the diversity of
medical requirements presented by a pandemic, including personal
protective equipment, antibiotics and general supplies.

* Establish domestic production capacity and stockpiles of
countermeasures to ensure:

                    o Sufficient vaccine to vaccinate front-line
personnel and at-risk populations, including military personnel;

                    o Sufficient vaccine to vaccinate the entire U.S.
population within six months of the emergence of a virus with pandemic
potential; and

                    o Antiviral treatment for those who contract a
pandemic strain of influenza.

* Facilitate appropriate coordination of efforts across the vaccine
manufacturing sector.

* Address regulatory and other legal barriers to the expansion of our
domestic vaccine production capacity.

* Expand the public health recommendations for domestic seasonal
influenza vaccination and encourage the same practice internationally.

* Expand the domestic supply of avian influenza vaccine to control a
domestic outbreak of avian influenza in bird populations.

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