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Prevention and control of animal diseases worldwide
Part I: Economic analysis: prevention versus outbreak costs
Figure 2 Overview of country national emergency plans for HPAI (a)
World
Americas
Europe/C.Asia
Middle East/N.Africa
Africa
Asia/Pacific
0.0% 20.0% 40.0% 60.0% 80.0% 100.0% 120.0%
plans in drafing process plans endorsed by government plans tested in simulation exercises
(a) On the basis of the number of countries that responded to the survey (133 countries)
Source: UN System Influenza Coordinator, June 2006
Another key point is that although plans tend to focus on common key intervention areas (such as
pursuing animal health through improved bio-security and veterinary services and integrating the animal
health and human health approaches 47 ), there appears to be significant variation in the contents and quality
of the plans. This observation has been made by the 2006 UNSIC survey and was confirmed by our
analysis of the national plans (discussed in section 4.2.3). Although the World Bank, the EC and the OIE
endeavour to carry out uniform, independent expert assessments or appraisals of the quality of these plans,
as far as we are aware these are not publicly available on a systematic basis to allow an informed comment
on this in the context of the current analysis.
47 The WB inter-regional knowledge sharing seminar on avian and human influenza of July 2006 focused on the
integrated country plans as the basis for coordinated and effective national response to avian and human pandemic
influenza (AHI) and on the need for close linkages between health and agriculture services to facilitate the
integration of national planning. Organised under the Global Development Learning Network (GDLN), a global
partnership of more than 100 Distance Learning Centres.
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