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Prevention and control of animal diseases worldwide
Part I: Economic analysis: prevention versus outbreak costs
• For the same reasons, it is extremely difficult to draw overall conclusions on the detail of the
plans across countries. Despite our efforts to obtain aggregate figures across countries of the costs
of some of the plans’ key components (e.g. surveillance, laboratory costs/diagnostic capacity etc.),
this has not been possible due to the very different composition of these plans.
• The majority of countries have sought to strengthen veterinary services, in accordance with OIE
standards focused primarily on animal disease surveillance, reporting of suspected outbreaks to
national authorities, confirmation of diagnosis (through laboratory tests) and international
reporting when the disease is detected (Annex 4).
In addition, a third source of information for our analysis have been the on-going country assessments
undertaken by OIE trained experts using the PVS evaluation tool. Although this has so far been applied in
a limited number of developing countries 79 , while results are only available in draft and/or remain
confidential at this stage, some early indications can be drawn from the assessments. It appears that the
main areas where improvements are needed are the increase in veterinary personnel, training, improving
epidemio-surveillance and laboratory capacity. These results are in line with the needs identified by most
countries in their national plans but also the needs of developing countries in general, as identified by the
international community.
Our analysis in this section leads us to the following conclusions and recommendations:
79 The PVS evaluations started in November 2006. Initially a pilot project, this has now become a fully-fledged
instrument. As at end of August 2007, 50 formal requests from OIE Member Countries had been received, and some
36 PVS evaluation missions had been carried out. Of these 18 missions were in Africa (24 requests in total), 6
missions in the Americas (8 requests), 5 missions in Asia/Pacific and 5 in Europe (6 requests respectively each) and
2 missions in the Middle East (6 requests). The OIE intends to carry out some 105 evaluations over 3 years (i.e.
approximately 35 evaluations each year, or 3 a month).
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