World Veterinary Association

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World Veterinary Association
Presentation African Veterinary Association
September 2009

• Dr.Tjeerd Jorna
• President

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World Veterinary Association and the role of
the veterinary profession on a global level
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WVA

• ONE WORLD, ONE MEDICINE, ONE HEALTH
• Healthy animals Healthy People
• ONE PROFESSION, ONE VISION, ONE VOICE

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One World One Health

• A unified approach between veterinary and human
  medicine to improve Global Health

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WVA Mission Statement

• Promoting the interest of the veterinary
  profession on the global scene by providing
  professional assistance to produce global
  policies expressing the point of view of the
  veterinary profession in Animal Health, Animal
  Welfare and Public Health to be of interest to
  global governmental institutions and
  non-governmental organisations and in veterinary
  education and veterinary congresses

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History

• 1863 International Veterinary Congresses
• Founded by John Gamgee in Hamburg
• 1863-1905 Congresses with issues like
• Zoonoses
• Veterinary Law and Meat Inspection
• Education and Application of veterinary drugs
• 1899 First World Congress
• 1905 Permanent Committee established
• 1959 World Veterinary Association
• 1963 100 year World Animal Health Year
  Hannover
• 1995-1999 Reconstruction WVA by Dr. A. Rantsios
  president
• Issues like interests of the veterinary
  profession and her role in society

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Structure

• Members National Associations
• Associate Members International Specialist
  Associations
• Regional Veterinary Organizations
• Affiliate Members Industrial Companies
• Individual Members Individual Veterinarians
• Observers International Organizations
• Regions Continental groups of members
• World Veterinary Congress
• Presidential Assembly
• Councillors
• Excom

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WVA professional objectives

• Global policy-making in animal health, animal
  welfare, public health and zoonotic disease
• Global policy-making in the relation of animal
  behaviour and climate change to animal disease
  control
• Global accreditation system for EDUCATION as the
  guarantee of the quality of the profession
• Global structure of veterinary services in good
  co-operation with OIE, FAO and WHO

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Veterinary medicine
A N I M A l L H E A L T H
P U B L I C H E A L T H
A N I M A L W E L F A R E
VETERINARY EDUCATION
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Role veterinarians

• Practitioner
• Hygienist
• Meat-inspection
• State veterinary officer
• Policy animal disease control and public health
• Industry and Institutes
• Education
• Veterinary Faculties and Agriculture Schools
• Environment and climate
• Disease-monitoring

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Animals

Science Knowledge / Skills Ethics /
Attitude Objective Independent Impartial
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Society
Owners / Keepers
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Cooperation

• ONE WORLD, ONE MEDICINE, ONE HEALTH
• (Roger K. Mahr)
• To PROMOTE global veterinary policy
• To BE INVOLVED in Veterinary Education Policy
• To REPRESENT all global veterinarians
• To SUPPORT global activities
• OIE, FAO, WHO, IFAH, IFAP, WSPA
• To take knowledge of activities of
• Institutes (CDC, ECDC), Governments, Politics,
  Activists
• By PARTICIPATION - RESPONSIBILITY -
• OPENNESS - TRANSPARENCY

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Main issues

• ANIMAL HEALTH
• ANIMAL WELFARE
• PUBLIC HEALTH
• EDUCATION and LIFE LONG LEARNING
• DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT

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Animal health

• To take part in global disease control projects
• To control economic epidemic diseases
• To discuss in task force groups of global
  organizations
• To discuss about antimicrobial resistance and the
  availability and prudent use of antibiotics
• To overlook the influence of climate change in
  animal behaviour and animal disease control

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Environment

• In relation to climate change
• Control of water
• Control of feed and food
• Control of wild life health
• Control of farm animal health
• Control of companion animal health
• Control of human life

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SARS
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Rabies
Rabies free
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Avian influenza
H5N1
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Animal welfare

• WVA respects the five freedoms of Animal Welfare
• WVA follows up the standards of AW of the OIE
• WVA has in principle adopted the Universal
  Declaration of Animal Welfare
• WVA has to act in a lot of regions to get basic
  standards of animal welfare

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Public health

• To maintain control of zoonotic diseases
• To control food security and food safety
• To support the structure of veterinary services
• To organise terms of probation for people from
  developing countries

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• Veterinary Public Health
• and
• Human Public Health together meansGlobal
  Public Health

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Food poisoning
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• The Veterinary Profession
• is a
• Health Profession!!

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Education

• To analyse the evaluation/accreditation systems
• To develop minimum requirements/day one skills of
  veterinary education
• To develop Life Long Learning/Continuous
  education with world veterinary organisations
• To cooperate in world education projects with OIE
  2009 and Vet 2011 in 2011

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Education Conference OIE

• Evolving Veterinary Education for a safer World
• OIE invites all deans of the world to participate
• Invitation by the Chief Veterinary Officer

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VET 2011

• 250 year Veterinary Education in the world
• Claude Bourgelat 1712-1779
• Lyon activity of comparative medicine 1761
• Hannover 1778
• 250 year veterinary profession not only a
  veterinary
• doctor , but a key player in public health too
• World Congress on Veterinary Education
• Lyon, 12-16 May 2011

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Development

• To develop
• a veterinary association/chamber
• a high level of veterinary service
• good cooperation between ministeries of Health
  and Agriculture
• an evaluation of veterinary education
• good cooperation between vets and physicians
• basic farming for food security
• disease control systems

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Communication

• WORLD VETERINARY CONGRESS 2011 and 2013
• WORLD VETERINARY DAY last weekend of April
• WORLD RABIES DAY 28th of September
• Newsletters
• Website www.worldvet.org

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Thank you for your attention

• When we all take our responsibility and I am be
  permitted to GUIDE all global veterinarians for
  the benefit of PEOPLE and ANIMALS my slogan is
• ONE WORLD - ONE HEALTH
• Hominum Animaliumque Saluti