Be Prepared : FAO assistance on preparedness for Transboundary Animal Diseases (TADs)

Eran Raizman Senior Animal Health Officer for

Eastern Europe and Central Asia

FAO Global Mandate

• Improve nutrition

• Increase agricultural

productivity

• Raise the standard of

living in rural populations

• Contribute to global

economic growth

HQ and Regional Offices

UN

Sustainable Development Goals

2030

1. Eliminate hunger, food insecurity,

malnutrition

2. Make agriculture more productive and

sustainable

3. Reduce rural poverty

4. Enable inclusive and efficient agricultural

and food systems

5. Resilience to disasters

Larger Frameworks

ANIMAL HEALTH THREATS

Three of today’s major challenges to animal and public health:

▪ Risk of Transboundary Animal Diseases (TADs) outbreaks (e.g. Avian Influenza, FMD & PPR)

▪ Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

▪ Food and feed safety

➢ One new infectious (TADs) disease every year

➢ 75% of EIDs that infect humans began in animal

➢ 60% of animal pathogens are zoonotic

➢ Many with pandemic potential

➢ High impacts on animals and humans

➢ Global significance, international public good

Risks of zoonoses

FAO’s strategic approach to disease control

▪ Tackling disease at source

▪ Speeding up response and tackling the drivers of

disease emergence, spread and persistence

▪ Developing and applying more effective health risk

management (One Health)

▪ Developing sustainable control strategies through

achievable steps in the progression toward increased

control

▪ Developing community based initiatives and participatory

approaches

FAO’s Animal Health RESPONSE:

▪ Sustainable capacity building

▪ Knowledge sharing

▪ Tools & Strategies

▪ Coordination & Networking

Ecosystem Health

AnimalHealth

HumanHealth

One Health

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SUSTAINABLE CAPACITY BUILDING

▪ Technical training

▪ Increased surveillance

▪ Laboratory diagnostics training

▪ Strengthening laboratory capacity

▪ Disease management

▪ Developing tools for disease control and eradication

▪ Advocacy for political will

KNOWLEDGE SHARING

▪ Enabling research environment

▪ Up-to-date disease intelligence and technology

▪ Information sharing on applied research

▪ Disseminating information:

▪ PUBLICATIONS: EMPRES 360, EMPRES Watch, FOCUS ON

▪ WEBSITE: EMPRES-AH

Main AI subtypes – Since October 2017

Geographical distribution of main AI

viruses1 October 2017 – 08 February 2019

Only the tip of the iceberg…

H5N1

H5N8

H5N6

HELPH5NX??

Early Warning

EMPRES Watch

-H5N8 HPAI (Sept. 2016): http://www.fao.org/3/a-i6113e.pdf -

Focus On (June 2017)

ASF Global Challenge

Carcass Management : Accompanied procedure

TOOLS & STRATEGIES

▪ Online Information Systems

▪ EMPRES-i

▪ Reporting Systems

▪ EMA-i (Event Mobile Application)

▪ Genetic Module

▪ Risk Assessment

▪ Lab Mapping Tool

▪ Aims

▪ determine strengths and gaps in laboratory functionality and capacity

▪ allow the generation of laboratory profile or “map’’

▪ Core LMT includes 108 sub-categories gathered in 18 categories

▪ 8 sub-categories on biosafety/biosecurity

▪ 3 sub-categories on staff security

FAO Lab Mapping Tool (LMT)

Surveillance Evaluation Tool (SET)

▪ Strong animal disease surveillance systems protect communities' livelihoods and prevent epidemics from zoonotic pathogens

▪ Evaluate a country's animal disease surveillance system to support the development of a locally-relevant action plan for improvement;

▪ Use a standardized and reproducible tool to monitor progress of the system over time.

COORDINATION & NETWORKING

▪ Disease control activities at country and regional level

▪ Grass roots multisectoral approach to health management

▪ Networking (FMD, OFFLU)

Action: What we do

Offer technical and operational assistance to help affected

governments assess epidemiological situations and

diagnose outbreaks of animal diseases

Newcastle Disease

Emergency Missions To Date

Mers-CoV

October 2006 – June 2019

101 missions56 countries

(approx. 46% HPAI, 20% Zoonoses and 34% other

TADs)

GEMP as a concept

▪ Overall approach to management of disease emergencies

▪ Composed of multipleand expanding list of specific tools:• “GEMP: The essentials”

manual• Technical Response SOPs• Others to follow

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• Prepare

• Prevent

• Detect

• Respond

• Recover

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Emergency Disease Management

GEMP Cycle

Integrated simulation exercises

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