ASEM to Fight Against Avian and Pandemic Influenza

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ASEM to Fight Against Avian and Pandemic
Influenza

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
• Yasukata Fukahori
• ASEM Workshop on Avian Influenza Control
• Beijing Asian Hotel, 12-14 November 2007

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ASEM to Fight against Avian Pandemic Influenza

• Chairmans Statement of the Sixth Asia Europe
  Meeting held on 10-11 September 2006
• Leaders reiterated their determination to
  combat global health threats, such as avian
  influenza and a possible human influenza
  pandemic.
• Leaders .stressing the importance of research
  cooperation and of establishing monitoring
  systems and prompt initial responses.
• Leaders welcomed the concrete common actions on
  global health issues within the ASEM framework
  and invited partners to continue their
  cooperation.

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Initiatives by ASEM Partners

• ASEM Partners have implemented projects related
  to Avian and Pandemic Influenza, such as
• ?ASEM Seminar on Health Quarantine Cooperation to
  Prevent and Control Communicable Disease?,
• ?Project for the Monitoring and Control of
  Communicable Diseases?
• ?ASEM Seminar on the Management of Public Health
  Emergency?, etc.

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New Threats and Challenges

• H5N1 strain is steadily transforming into human
  to human type
• New and re-emerging poultry infections have been
  observed in Asia in 2007
• Asia is under serious threat but not properly
  equipped with containment measures
• ? Recalling the ASEM Leaders determination, ASEM
  should implement tangible projects by
  establishing monitoring systems and prompt
  initial responses for the containment

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Active Role of ASEF is expected

• ASEF is the only permanent organization
  implementing projects for ASEM
• ASEF has the accumulation of intellectual
  exchanges and people to people exchanges during
  the past 10 years.
• The skill for networking and capacity building
  that ASEF has acquired should now be fully
  mobilized for the rapid containment of influenza.
  
• It will be ASEFs concrete functional projects
  that can lead to tangible results to ensure
  ASEMs momentum and relevance.

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Role of Japan

• Japan has been implementing various projects to
  fight against avian and pandemic influenza
• Particularly, Japan has been supporting efforts
  of developing countries in Asia
• Stockpile project of Anti-viral medicines and PPE
  for ASEAN is the joint initiative by Japan and
  WHO
• Japan will continue to support ASEM process in
  fighting against influenza jointly with ASEM
  partners and international organizations

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• 1. Stockpiling of antiviral drugs and other
  personal preventive equipment for early response
• 46.8 million
• In May 2005, Japan assisted in the stockpiling of
  500,000 courses of antiviral drugs and provided
  personal protective equipment for 700,000 people
  to enable a timely containment response in the
  event of an outbreak of pandemic influenza in
  ASEAN countries.

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• Building the capacity of WHO surveillance and
  support for its distribution of antiviral drugs
• 2 million
• Japan and the WHO co-hosted the Japan-WHO Joint
  Meeting on Early Response to Potential Influenza
  Pandemic in Asia in January 2006. Japan is
  helping the WHO to enhance its surveillance
  capacity and develop a global strategy for the
  use and distribution of the latters stockpile
  antiviral drugs of in the event of an early
  response.

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• Capacity building in the area of animal health
  through OIE and FAO
• 19.8 million
• Japan hosted the First MAFF-Japan/OIE/FAO Joint
  Conference on Special Trust Fund Programme for
  Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Control at
  Source in Southeast Asia in April 2005. OIE and
  FAO are implementing projects based on plans
  adopted at the conference to improve capacities
  in veterinary services, disease information
  systems and disease control strategies in
  Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar,
  the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam.

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Japans Contributions in total

• USD 222 million as of November 2007, all already
  disbursed
• - USD 46.7 million for ASEAN
• - USD 49.1 million for UNICEF
• - USD 19.8 million for OIE and FAO
• - USD 2 million for WHO
• - USD 19.5 million for World Bank
• - USD 10 million for ADB
• - USD 8.1 million for other international
  organizations
• - USD 32.7 million for research activities
• - USD 23.1 million for provision of
  equipment
• - USD 11 million for other activities
  including bilateral
• assistances

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Stockpile of Tamiflu and PPE
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WHO (WPRO)
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ASEAN Secretariat
Government of Japan (MOFA)
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Recipient Country of ASEAN
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Transfer
500,000 courses of Tamiflu 700,000 sets of
PPE Stockpiles (Singapore)
Outbreak site
Operation