ASEAN Cooperation in Combating Avian Influenza

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ASEAN Cooperation in Combating Avian Influenza

• ASEM Workshop on Avian Influenza Control
• 12-14 November 2007, Beijing, China

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Outline

• ASEAN Initiatives on Avian Influenza
• Human/Public Health
• Pandemic Preparedness
• Animal Health

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ASEAN Initiatives Human/Public Health

• ASEAN Plus Three Emerging Infectious Diseases
  (EID) Programme
• Arose from ASEANs SARS experience in 2003, the
  Programme is primarily meant to increase the
  effectiveness of regional surveillance, early
  warning and response to infections
• 4 Components Institutional Strengthening (ASEAN
  Secretariat) Regional Networking (Indonesia)
  Laboratory Diagnosis, Surveillance and Response
  (Malaysia) and Epidemiological Surveillance
  Capacity (Thailand)
• Implemented by the ASEAN Expert Group on
  Communicable Diseases (AEGCD) and their Plus
  Three Counterparts with the support of Australia
  (AusAID)

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ASEAN Initiatives Human/Public Health

• ASEAN Plus Three Emerging Infectious Diseases
  (EID) Programme
• Phase I (August 2004-October 2005) ASEAN
  Secretariat role as co-ordinator/facilitator
  ASEAN Disease Surveillance Network (ADS net)
  website http//www.ads-net.org Co-ordination
  with WHO on assessments and Guidelines for
  evaluating Early Warning and Response System
  (EWARS)
• Phase II (currently) Programme Management Team
  ASEAN Plus Three EID Fund Strengthen regional
  and national laboratories Reviews of
  internet-based surveillance networks Training of
  response team trainers and Development of a
  ministerial agreement on deploying multinational
  response teams

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ASEAN Initiatives Human/Public Health

• ASEAN-Japan Anti-viral Drugs and Personal
  Protective Equipment (PPE) Stockpile Project
• Co-ordinated by the ASEAN Secretariat
• Stockpile 500,000 courses of Tamiflu and PPE for
  700,000 people (since mid-August 2006)
• Location Singapore (transfer target of within 24
  hours)
• PANSTOP 2007 pre-pandemic table top exercise
  from 2-3 April 2007
• Additional 500,000 Anti-viral drugs (Tamiflu and
  Relenza) are being procured for deployment to
  ASEAN Member Countries
• PPE for 350,000 people (of the 700,000
  stockpiled) is also set for deployment to ASEAN
  Member Countries

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ASEAN Initiatives Pandemic Preparedness

• Avian Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Project
• Co-ordinated by the ASEAN Secretariat and
  supported by the USAID, with the aim of improving
  pandemic preparedness plans by involving the
  non-health sector
• ASEAN Mapping Exercise for Pandemic Preparedness
  and Response, 26-27 July 2007 in Vientiane, Lao
  PDR identified gaps and challenges in national
  pandemic preparedness plans
• ASEAN Regional Workshop on Multi-sectoral
  Co-ordination in Pandemic Preparedness and
  Response, 29-30 November 2007 in Halong Bay,
  Vietnam to arrive at a common understanding of
  the multi-sectoral approach to pandemic
  preparedness and response at the national and
  regional level and identify the roles and
  responsibilities of the relevant stakeholders

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ASEAN Initiatives Animal Health

• ASEAN Regional Strategy for the Progressive
  Eradication of HPAI (2008-2010)
• endorsed by the 29th Meeting of the ASEAN
  Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry, 1 November
  2007
• reformulated, by HPAI Taskforce with the support
  of the ADB, from the Regional Framework for the
  Control and Eradication of HPAI (2005)
• ARAHIS (ASEAN Regional Animal Health Information
  System)
• ASEAN participation in FAO/OIE Global Strategy
  for the Progressive Control of HPAI and the
  Global Framework for the Progressive Control of
  Transboundary Animal Diseases (GF-TADs)

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ASEAN Initiatives Animal Health

• ASEAN Regional Strategy for the Progressive
  Eradication of HPAI (2008-2010)
• Objective To strengthen the co-ordination and
  capacity to manage HPAI infections
• ASEAN Animal Health Trust Fund (2005)
• Proposed activities an animal health and
  zoonosis unit veterinary services and manpower
  vaccination and vaccination exit strategies
  surveillance and epidemiology (including outbreak
  investigation) and zoning and compartmentalisatio
  n

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ASEAN Initiatives

• Focus of ASEAN Regional Cooperation
• Strengthening institutional linkages within
  countries and across borders.
• Setting up partnerships with all stakeholders in
  public and private sectors and civil society.
• Sharing information, knowledge, success stories
  and lessons learned.
• Changing mindset in farming and poultry
  management practices.
• Exerting leadership and instituting coordination
  to be on top of the situation.

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Thank You http//www.aseansec.org