International Cooperation as a step towards a one health policy

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International Cooperation as a step towards a
 one health policy 

• IFAH Europe Conference on Animal Health Solutions
  for the Future
• Brussels 12 June 2008
• Jean-Luc Angot, Deputy Director General
• Christianne Bruschke, Scientific and Technical
  Dep

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OIE is the leading global organisation on animal
health

• Transparency of the world zoosanitary information
• To provide expertise and encourage international
  solidarity in the control of animal diseases
• To collect, analyse and disseminate scientific
  veterinary information
• To safeguard world trade by publishing health
  standards
• Better guarantee of the safety of food of animal
  origin and to promote animal welfare
• To improve the legal framework and resources of
  National Veterinary Services

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Priority Partnerships

• FAO
• WHO
• Other UN Organisations
• Regional Organisations (AU-IBAR, ASEAN, SADC etc)
• World Bank
• WTO
• EC

• Private Sector
• Donors
• CVOs
• NGOs

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Organisations with official agreements

• FAO
• WHO
• Codex Alimentarius
• PAHO
• WTO
• World Bank
• EC
• OUA-IBAR
• SADC
• IFAH
• WVA
• IDF
• IMS
• FEI
• IFAP

• IATA
• IABs
• ICMM
• ILRI
• SSAFE
• IPC
• IEC
• WSPA
• Regional Organisations
• Professional Organisations
• Farmers Organisations
• More than 40 agreements concluded

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Mandates

• OIE to improve animal health worldwide
• FAO to raise levels of nutrition, improve
  agricultural productivity, better the lives of
  rural populations and contribute to the growth of
  the world economy.
• WHO to improve public health worldwide

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Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases
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Multi-host nature of diseases

• 60 of human pathogens are zoonotic
• 75 of emerging diseases are zoonotic
• 80 of agents having a potential bioterrorist use
  are zoonotic pathogens
• Nearly all new human diseases originate from
  animal reservoirs
• Diseases can now spread faster across the world
  than the average incubation time of most diseases

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Minimize Threat of Emerging Animal Diseases

• Surveillance
• Early detection
• Awareness
• High quality Veterinary Services
• Rapid and transparent notification
• Appropriate national chain of command

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Minimize Threat of Emerging Animal Diseases (cont)

• Rapid response
• rapid confirmation of suspects
• confinement and humane stamping out
• use of vaccination when available and if
  appropriate
• Governance, legislation, policies and resources,
  in compliance with OIE international standards

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Good Governance of Veterinary Services

• Basic requirements for all countries
• Crucial need for appropriate legislation and
  strict implementation through appropriate
  national animal health systems allowing
• Early detection, Transparency, Notification
• Rapid response to animal disease outbreaks
• Biosecurity
• Compensation
• Vaccination when necessary

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Good Governance of Veterinary Services (2)

• Building and maintaining efficient (epidemio)
  surveillance networks and territorial meshing
  covering the entire national territory,
  potentially for all animal diseases, including
  zoonoses and emerging diseases, is a
  responsibility of all Governments including
  developed countries,
• Concept of quality of Services adopted by all OIE
  Member Countries,
• Parallel with WHO/IHR

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European Technology Platform for Global Animal
Health

• European Platform Global Animal
  Health
• Future International Initiative Needed?
• YES
• Which Structure?
• Who Involved?
• Funding?

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European Technology Platform for Global Animal
Health

• Strategic Research Agenda contains
  recommendations on the Global Perspectives
• Introduce joint research programs with non EU
  countries for important diseases that do not
  occur in the EU
• Validate tools in cooperation with developing
  countries
• Provide sustainable support for research through
  international cooperation
• Promote partnerships and provide finance for
  joint research in order to assist with capacity
  building
• Develop and fund collaborating centres/ labs with
  developing countries

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Global Framework for the Control of Transboundary
Animal Diseases

• Agreement between the OIE and the FAO (Paris,
  24-05-2004)
• It replaces a previous 50 years old agreement

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GF-TADs

• Strengthens complementarities and synergies of
  OIE / FAO
• Early warning systems
• Collection and analysis of the animal health
  information
• Design and implementation of strategies for
  disease control
• Promotion of research

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Regional Support Units
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OIE Reference Laboratoriesand collaborating
centres
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Animal Health Activities

• Validation certification of diagnostic assays
• Laboratories twinning
• PVS Performance of Veterinary Services

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International Technology Platform for Global
Animal Health

• Determine objectives
• Avoid fragmentation of research
• Research for better tools should be done in a
  co-ordinated manner
• Current SRA and action plan ETPGAH has an
  international chapter
• International organisations should take leading
  role
• No overlap with existing mandates
• Use of existing structures (GF-TADs, Ref Labs)

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International Technology Platform for Global
Animal Health

• Approach may be disease wise (FMD, CSF,AI etc)
• Existing structures can be used
• Link with the ETPGAH is clear
• International Donor Funding is already available
• Involvement of other partners like DG Development
• Easy to start up and broaden later
• Research priorities will be defined in current EU
  project DISCONTOOLS

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OFFLU

• Joint OIE/FAO worldwide scientific network for
  the control of avian influenza

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Cooperation with WHO

• GLEWs Global Early Warning system (zoonoses)
  OIE / OMS / FAO
• Antimicrobial resistance
• Codex Alimentarius (food safety)

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Global Public Good

• Goods whose benefits extend to all countries,
  people and generations
• Animal Health Systems are Global Public Goods
• If one country fails it might endanger the whole
  planet

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