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Title: AVIAN INFLUENZA


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AVIAN INFLUENZA
  • Preparedness and Response in Ethiopia

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ETHIOPIA
  • Location - NE part of Africa/the Horn of
    Africa
  • Area - about 1.1 million square
    kilometres
  • Borders with
  • - Eritrea in the north, Djibouti in the east,
    Sudan in the west, Kenya in the south, and
    Somalia in the southeast.
  • Population - about 77.4 million (85 rural and
    15 urban), - growing at a rate of 2.7
  • Administrative Structure
  • - Nine Regional States
  • - Two City Administrations
  • Economy
  • - Agriculture employs about 85 of the
    population
  • Livestock Population
  • - about 40.3 million cattle, 25.1 million
    sheep, 22.3 million goats, 6 million equines,
    1.7 million camels and 31 million poultry

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AI Preparedness Plan
  • In consideration of the situation and the
    potential for a pandemic, the MoARD and MoH of
    the Government of the FDRE in collaboration with
    partners, prepared a three year preparedness plan
    for the imminent pandemic influenza.
  • Objectives of the plan are to provide guidance
    that enhance
  • Prevention and control of influenza in poultry
    and human population
  • Reduction in the health and socioeconomic
    consequences from the pandemic
  • Necessary preparedness for and the response to
    the pandemic

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The Strategies
  • Strengthen Institutional Capacity
  • Strengthening Influenza Surveillance and
    Epidemiology
  • Strengthening Laboratory Diagnostic Services
  • Disease Management
  • Communication and Public Awareness
  • Project Management

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Urgent Intervention for the Early Detection,
Prevention, and Control of Avian Influenza (
Project Co-Funded by USAID and DFID)
Overall Objective of the Project to address
the urgent short and medium-term actions that are
to be undertaken by the Government to strengthen
its capacity in order to rapidly detect any
introduction of HPAI into the country and stop
its spread in the case of its occurrence
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Planned Activities of the Project Component A
Undertaking disease surveillance and
strengthening laboratory capacity Component
B Communication and public awareness Component
C Emergency outbreak containment Component D
Socio-economic assessment
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Accomplishments to date
  • Component A Undertaking disease surveillance
    and strengthening laboratory capacity
  • Strengthening animal disease surveillance
    capacities
  • Establish emergency Operations Centers (EOCs)
  • Developed policies and standard operational
    procedures
  • -
  • Diagnostic capacity building
  • trainings on improved AI diagnosis technologies
  • established a dedicated P2 bio-safety laboratory
  • Risk assessment for HPAI
  • Study to CIRAD (France) to undertake the HPAI
    risk analysis
  • Bio-security study and training

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Accomplishments, cont.,
  • Component B Communication and public awareness
  • A knowledge, attitudes and practices analysis
    (KAP) done and reveal the presence of high
    level awareness among the majority of poultry
    producers in the country)
  • An Avian and Human Influenza Communication
    Strategy and Action Plan (CSAP) have been
    developed
  • The National avian influenza prevention and
    control policies have been translated into
    Amharic
  • Avian influenza training packages have has been
    developed and distributed
  • Seven training of trainers (ToT) courses were
    provided
  • About 140 journalists were trained in risk
    communication
  • About 154,000 posters containing avian influenza
    communication messages in six different
    languages (Amharic, Oromiffa, Tigrigna, Somali,
    Afarigna and English) were printed and
    distributed throughout the country
  • 200,000 copies of a brochure (in Amharic) were
    disseminated.

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Accomplishments, cont.,
  • Component C Emergency outbreak containment
  • Provided support to the Government in the
    development of the three-year National avian
    Human Influenza strategic preparedness and
    response plan.
  • Prepared Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for
    Avian Influenza prevention and control in
    Ethiopia
  • Prepared two training manuals based on SOPs for
    use by personnel to be involved in poultry
    vaccination, culling and disposal of carcasses
    and contaminated materials.
  • Component D Socio-economic assessment
  • Commissioned a Livelihoods assessment on the
    social and economic implications of an outbreak
    of Avian Influenza
  • Developed compensation policy and mechanism of
    componsation for payment of culled poultry,
    addressing separately the commercial and backyard
    poultry production sectors.

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  • Perceived Impacts So far
  • The establishment of the Emergency operation
    Centres were very much appreciated by all
    regional state BoARDs and are currently being
    used to other animal health emergencies other
    that HPAI.
  • The Avian Influenza Structure set in place is now
    being used by the federal government for other
    emerging epizootics such as Rift Valley Fever and
    name of the committee is changed to
  • The Avian Influenza project, co-funded by USAID
    and DFID, has set a precedence in bringing
    together the Human Health and Animal Health
    sectors to work together on common issues and
    objectives
  • As Ethiopia is not yet an infected country, the
    project considerably contribute in the
    institutional capacity strengthening of animal
    health services. There is a conspicuous and vivid
    positive difference between the capacities of
    veterinary services at the start of the project
    and now.

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