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Prevention and control of animal diseases worldwide
Part I: Economic analysis: prevention versus outbreak costs
After the first confirmed outbreak, immediate support was provided by international organisations and
programs are currently in place to strengthen AI surveillance and reporting systems (A236b). Through a
FAO/German Trust Fund project, Germany allocated US$ 141,000, for a 6-month project which ended in
May 2006, to provide emergency assistance to control Avian Influenza in Romania (A 42), while in
November 2006 the EU allocated 105,000 Euro to improve the surveillance for avian influenza in the
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In August 2006 the World Bank approved a loan to Romania over the 11/2006-8/2009 period in the
amount of Euro 29.6 million (US$ 37.7 million) under the GPAI programme to support a national
program to increase Romania’s avian and human influenza preparedness. The project allocated Euro 14.3
million (39%) for Animal Health, Euro 19.80 million (54%) for Human Health; Euro 1.641 million (4%)
for Public Awareness and Communications and Euro 1.824 million (5%) for support, monitoring and
evaluation (A93a). The Animal health component includes 4 components whose budget details are
provided in Table 20.
Table 20 Romania: Animal Health component of the avian influenza control and human pandemic
preparedness and response project
Amount (EURO
million)
Strengthening the Institutional Framework 1.503
Strengthening Disease Surveillance, Diagnostic Capacity and Research 10.878
Strengthening HPAI Control Programs 1.578
Improving Bio-security in poultry production trade 293
TOTAL 14.252
Source: Romania WB GPAI/APL
Some 57% of the Animal Heath budget has been allocated to support the improvement of diagnostic
capacity. Romania's laboratory capacity has been substantially improved over the past years and is
equipped to diagnose all notifiable diseases, including HPAI, at the national reference laboratory (NRL)
located at the Institute for Diagnosis and Animal Health (IDAH), but on the other hand the IDAH
laboratory is the only BSL-3 facility on the animal health side. (A93a)
The National Reference Laboratory (NRL) has been in charge since the beginning of the outbreaks to
confirm through virus isolation the presence of HPAI. It has also been involved in the training of staff
especially for the setting up of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) diagnostic units in the county
laboratories that have been provided with such technology. Three teams (virology, molecular biology and
animal health & traceability) were set up to respond to the emergency and the number of people involved
134 According to this Commission Decision, Romania was allocated Euro 9.72 million in maximum co-funding
(50% in most cases) for 2007 for the monitoring, eradication and control of animal diseases. The bulk of this budget
has been committed to CSF (5.25 million Euro) and TSE monitoring (2.37 million Euro, for both of which the
Commission co-funding rate is up to 100%.
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