AVIAN INFLUENZA

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AVIAN INFLUENZA

• Preparedness and Response in Ethiopia

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ETHIOPIA

• Location - NE part of Africa/the Horn of
  Africa
• Area - about 1.1 million square
  kilometres
• Borders with
• - Eritrea in the north, Djibouti in the east,
  Sudan in the west, Kenya in the south, and
  Somalia in the southeast.
• Population - about 77.4 million (85 rural and
  15 urban), - growing at a rate of 2.7
• Administrative Structure
• - Nine Regional States
• - Two City Administrations
• Economy
• - Agriculture employs about 85 of the
  population
• Livestock Population
• - about 40.3 million cattle, 25.1 million
  sheep, 22.3 million goats, 6 million equines,
  1.7 million camels and 31 million poultry

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AI Preparedness Plan

• In consideration of the situation and the
  potential for a pandemic, the MoARD and MoH of
  the Government of the FDRE in collaboration with
  partners, prepared a three year preparedness plan
  for the imminent pandemic influenza.
• Objectives of the plan are to provide guidance
  that enhance
• Prevention and control of influenza in poultry
  and human population
• Reduction in the health and socioeconomic
  consequences from the pandemic
• Necessary preparedness for and the response to
  the pandemic

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The Strategies

• Strengthen Institutional Capacity
• Strengthening Influenza Surveillance and
  Epidemiology
• Strengthening Laboratory Diagnostic Services
• Disease Management
• Communication and Public Awareness
• Project Management

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Urgent Intervention for the Early Detection,
Prevention, and Control of Avian Influenza (
Project Co-Funded by USAID and DFID)
Overall Objective of the Project to address
the urgent short and medium-term actions that are
to be undertaken by the Government to strengthen
its capacity in order to rapidly detect any
introduction of HPAI into the country and stop
its spread in the case of its occurrence
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Planned Activities of the Project Component A
Undertaking disease surveillance and
strengthening laboratory capacity Component
B Communication and public awareness Component
C Emergency outbreak containment Component D
Socio-economic assessment
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Accomplishments to date

• Component A Undertaking disease surveillance
  and strengthening laboratory capacity
• Strengthening animal disease surveillance
  capacities
• Establish emergency Operations Centers (EOCs)
• Developed policies and standard operational
  procedures
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• Diagnostic capacity building
• trainings on improved AI diagnosis technologies
• established a dedicated P2 bio-safety laboratory
• Risk assessment for HPAI
• Study to CIRAD (France) to undertake the HPAI
  risk analysis
• Bio-security study and training

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Accomplishments, cont.,

• Component B Communication and public awareness
• A knowledge, attitudes and practices analysis
  (KAP) done and reveal the presence of high
  level awareness among the majority of poultry
  producers in the country)
• An Avian and Human Influenza Communication
  Strategy and Action Plan (CSAP) have been
  developed
• The National avian influenza prevention and
  control policies have been translated into
  Amharic
• Avian influenza training packages have has been
  developed and distributed
• Seven training of trainers (ToT) courses were
  provided
• About 140 journalists were trained in risk
  communication
• About 154,000 posters containing avian influenza
  communication messages in six different
  languages (Amharic, Oromiffa, Tigrigna, Somali,
  Afarigna and English) were printed and
  distributed throughout the country
• 200,000 copies of a brochure (in Amharic) were
  disseminated.

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Accomplishments, cont.,

• Component C Emergency outbreak containment
• Provided support to the Government in the
  development of the three-year National avian
  Human Influenza strategic preparedness and
  response plan.
• Prepared Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for
  Avian Influenza prevention and control in
  Ethiopia
• Prepared two training manuals based on SOPs for
  use by personnel to be involved in poultry
  vaccination, culling and disposal of carcasses
  and contaminated materials.
• Component D Socio-economic assessment
• Commissioned a Livelihoods assessment on the
  social and economic implications of an outbreak
  of Avian Influenza
• Developed compensation policy and mechanism of
  componsation for payment of culled poultry,
  addressing separately the commercial and backyard
  poultry production sectors.

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• Perceived Impacts So far
• The establishment of the Emergency operation
  Centres were very much appreciated by all
  regional state BoARDs and are currently being
  used to other animal health emergencies other
  that HPAI.
• The Avian Influenza Structure set in place is now
  being used by the federal government for other
  emerging epizootics such as Rift Valley Fever and
  name of the committee is changed to
• The Avian Influenza project, co-funded by USAID
  and DFID, has set a precedence in bringing
  together the Human Health and Animal Health
  sectors to work together on common issues and
  objectives
• As Ethiopia is not yet an infected country, the
  project considerably contribute in the
  institutional capacity strengthening of animal
  health services. There is a conspicuous and vivid
  positive difference between the capacities of
  veterinary services at the start of the project
  and now.

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Thank You !!!