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Prevention and control of animal diseases worldwide
Part I: Economic analysis: prevention versus outbreak costs
In August 2006, the OIE proposed a three-year plan to improve Veterinary Services (VS) in developing
countries (A57). Although the objectives of the plan are applicable to all TADs, especially zoonoses, due
to the urgency of the current situation with HPAI, the programme is focused mainly on developing
countries that are AI infected or at immediate risk. It aims helping those countries to have an effective VS,
capable of detecting animal disease outbreaks as soon as they occur and responding rapidly to bring the
diseases immediately under control. The plan is designed to bring the VS in the countries concerned into
line with OIE international standards in terms of governance, organisation and functioning, and encourage
an active partnership with the private sector. In therefore includes an evaluation of the national VS in the
various countries 75 to determine their normative deficiencies, on the basis of which detailed projects to
improve the VS are to be drawn and implemented during a preliminary pilot phase. This programme will
be implemented in strong collaboration with the FAO, the WHO, and OIE regional representations.
Key priority actions and investments envisaged by the programme include inter alia the preparation of
emergency plans and systems for early detection, rapid response and surveillance for priority diseases,
strengthening the capability of public and private stakeholders (including through training), creation of a
compensation fund for livestock producers, bringing diagnostic capability into line with international
standards, and support for the creation of the relevant vaccines and antigens national stocks.
75 Including the currently under way evaluations of the VS with the use of the PVS tool.
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