FAO Livestock program in Tajikistan

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FAO Livestock program in Tajikistan

• Development of self-sustaining animal health and
  field support services in Tajikistan
• Improved public health through Brucellosis
  control in high risk regions in Tajikistan

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Development of self-sustaining animal health and
field support services in Tajikistan

• The program has been in operation since 1999.
• The objective is to provide practical,
  cost-effective and self-sustaining veterinary
  service to private live-stock owners.
• The Veterinary Field Unit, VFU, system trains and
  equips government veterinarians and contract them
  to provide animal health services in their areas
  of residence.

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Development of self-sustaining animal health and
field support services in Tajikistan

• VFUs were begun in Kurgan Tube and Kulyab and
  expanded from there throughout the country.
• In the end of year 2000 114 contractors had been
  set up, trained, equipped and made operational
• Up until today the number is 439 VFUs, supported
  from nine veterinary field bases

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Tajikistan Coverage of Sheep and Goat population
by FAO VFUs, in
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Tajikistan Coverage of cattle population by FAO
VFUs, in
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VFUs today

• moving from a face of emergency into a face
  containing more elements of development
• focus being on continuing education through
  individual monitoring and workshops
• emphasizing on the importance for the
  veterinarians to have their clinics functioning
  as private businesses.
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Current situation on zoonotic diseases in
Tajikistan

• Due to the general collapse of the veterinary
  services after the fall of the Soviet Union and
  in the after maths of the civil war the
  incidences of several diseases, among them
  several very severe and also zoonotic, has risen
  dramatically over the past years

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Human cases, zoonotic diseases. Country wide.
Data from SES
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Animal cases, zoonotic diseases, country wide
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FMD May
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FMD June
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FMD July
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FMD August
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FMD September
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FMD October
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FMD Novemberer
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FMD December
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Actions being taken

• After two workshops on Zoonotic diseases held in
  Dushanbe in 2003 it was decided to concentrate
  first on trying to reduce the incidence of
  Brucellosis.
• Brucellosis was at that time the only zoonotic
  dseases that was at all possible to talk openly
  about
• Reducing the incidence of Brucellosis in animals
  and humans is also the governments priority and
  Brucellosis is governments priority zoonotic
  disease.

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State Veterinary Department

• Budget for 2001 63 000 USD
• Has decided to concentrate on five diseases,
  considered to be of most importance
• Anthrax
• Brucellosis
• Foot and Mouth disease, FMD
• Rhinderpest
• Tuberculosis

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Costs for reducing prevalence of zoonotic diseases

• SVD have estimated the cost for vaccines and
  diagnostics for all livestock in the entire
  country against these five diseases to 1 387 711
  USD.
• If one takes in all real costs, a budget for
  vaccinating all sheep, goats and cattle in this
  country only against Brucellosis would be
  approximately 1 960 243 USD.

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Improved public health through Brucellosis
control in high risk regions in Tajikistan

• Funding from the Government of Norway and Canada
• Will be monitored by the veterinary and public
  health services of the government.
• In one month 300 000 sheep and goats in 600
  villages in 8 rayons in Rasht valley are to be
  vaccinated.
• Has just started off, this Tuesday a workshop
  for veterinarians and medical health workers were
  conducted here in Dushanbe and the day after
  vaccinations began in Faizabad.

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Cost-effective ways of reducing the level of
zoonotic diseases country-wide

• one disease at a time?
• long-term commitment
• planned actions
• jointly approach