Avian Influenza Control Strategy in Tajikistan

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Avian Influenza Control Strategy in Tajikistan
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What is being done?

• Jan 2006 blood sera collected from 5 species of
  birds in Yavan district
• HI testing of these samples for antibodies
  against H5 virus strain results negative
• Draft National Emergency Plan developed by SVD,
  where livestock aspect is the priority

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What is being done?

• Liaising with SVD and MoH Republican SES on AI
  situation in Tajikistan
• Assignment of FAO and WHO focal points and joint
  Task Forces on AI
• MoH and MoA National Comprehensive Plan of
  Actions on Preventing and Control of Avian
  Influenza (incomplete)

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FAO Global Programme(with OIE and WHO)

• Overall Goal
• FAOs goal is to coordinate and manage, in
  collaboration with OIE, the international effort
  in assisting countries to control and ultimately
  eradicate avian influenza from the poultry
  producing sectors and to prepare non-infected
  countries for a rapid detection of, and response
  to, incursions of the disease.

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FAO Global Programme

• 4 COMPONENTS
• 1. Coordinate and manage the international
  response, at the global and regional level.
• 2. Provide support to infected countries in their
  efforts to control and eradicate the disease.
• 3. Assist unaffected countries in their efforts
  to be prepared to face an incursion of the
  disease.
• 4. Provide resources to enable support for a
  rapid response, should new countries become
  infected

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FAO Global Programme

• COMPONENT 3 UNAFFECTED COUNTRIES
• Overall Goal
• The overall goal is to minimise extension of the
  current avian influenza panzootic, by ensuring
  that countries at risk have the capacity to
  rapidly detect and control outbreaks of the
  disease.
• Objective
• To assist countries at risk in improving their
  early detection and early response capacity to
  highly pathogenic avian influenza.

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FAO Global Programme

• COMPONENT 3 UNAFFECTED COUNTRIES
• Activities
• 1. Project management
• 2. Risk assessment
• 3. Surveillance
• 4. National disease preparedness plans
• 5. Laboratory support
• 6. Provision of disease control equipment and
  supplies
• 7. Public awareness and technical information
• 8. Capacity building upgrading of veterinary
  services
• 9. Research

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What to do?

• Top priorities in Tajikistan
• Operating within Component 3 of FAO Global
  Programm?
• Setup a FAO AI Unit, linked to ECTAD to liaise
  with government and donors
• Establish Sero-monitoring Network
• Upgrade Diagnostic Facilities

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What to do?

• Top priorities in Tajikistan
• Operating within Component 3 of FAO Global
  Programme
• Impart field and lab staff training and develop
  Awareness Schemes regarding biosecurity and
  vaccination measures.
• Develop Awareness Schemes regarding biosecurity
  and vaccination measures.
• Formulate National Contingency Plan for AI.

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Basis for action

• 500 VFUs, with nationwide coverage
• 11 Veterinary bases with computer equipment and
  databases
• FAO Transboundary Animal Disease Project covering
  the CA Region in Tajikistan National
  Epidemiologist
• FAO in livestock in Tajikistan since 1999
• 5 ongoing projects including zoonosis combat
  (Brucellosis)

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Basis for action

• Basic necessary facilities for CA countries for
  preparedness
• Personal protective suits
• Diagnostic reagents
• Beneficiaries
• Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan,
  Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan

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ELISA equipment in FMD Institute
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Basis for action

• Sample awareness material - Technically
  approved by ECTAD- Dissemination in Tajik and
  Russian- Posters on UN Info Board
• FAO/WHO weakly leaflet on AI

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Basis for action

• FAO / OIE / WHO Global Networks
• ECTAD - Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal
  Diseases
• GLEWS - Global Early Warning and Response System
  for Major Animal Diseases, including Zoonoses
• Regional Network - of national diagnosis
  laboratories and epidemio-surveillance for
  control and prevention of HPAI
• OFFLU - Reference Laboratories, Collaborating
  Centers and expertise groups in influenza virus ,
  www.offlu.net

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• SUMMARY
• Country Situation Risk Assessment ? Low risk
  but ?
• Upgrade urgently surveillance capacity (virus
  and sero-surveillance)
• Advise the government and finalize the
  comprehensive AI Control Plan.
• Maintain a broad approach to establish universal
  transboundary disease control systems

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Additional Information
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