FAO -Compensation Needed for Developing Countries

[sharon sanders]

"Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) under current conditions
poses a major risk to human and animal health. Efforts to contain
the disease are therefore in national and global interest. As the most
widely practiced control methods for poultry involve culling birds
that are infected or in regions immediately around infected animals,
the most common practice to ensure the cooperation of owners
of birds is to compensate them for the culling of their animals to
achieve this public goal. Early identification of HPAI and the immediate
culling of diseased or suspected animals are critical elements
of reducing the risk of the disease spreading. The international community
and national governments have responded to this challenge
by establishing funding mechanisms to enable compensation to assist
in this strategy.
Payment of compensation to farmers whose animals are being
culled enhances producer cooperation through better motivation to
comply with the disease reporting and culling requirements of disease
control packages. It reduces the time lag between an outbreak
and containment actions, and hence diminishes the overall cost of
control. To the extent that it reduces the virus load, it also reduces
the risk of the virus mutating to becoming transmissible from human
to human. Enhancing early reporting and complete culling of
diseased or suspected birds is thus the first objective of compensation
schemes. A second objective can be to reimburse losses of private
citizens who have complied with a disease control process for
the public good. This is compatible with the first objective..."

from:
Enhancing Control of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Developing Countries Through Compensation
Issues and Good Practice (pdf)



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http://www.fao.org/docs/eims/upload//217132/gui_hpai_compensation.pdf


I call on major corporations, countries with a large cash reserves, and major foundations to fund these efforts. Will the prosperious among us in the world community heed the call from international organizations to raise funds for the fight against a high pathogenic H5N1?

"As preparations for the Bamako Conference are being finalized, the World Bank will continue to work with development finance partners to collect and disseminate data on the resources available for the international effort to control AHI at source and to prepare for a possible human pandemic. Donors are invited to submit pledge forms (on a confidential basis) before the pledging meeting. Donors may send advance pledge forms to Pauline Zwaans at pzwaans@worldbank.org. "
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[sharon sanders]

Re: FAO -Compensation Needed for Developing Countries

Effective Control of H5N1 in Poultry

(Gainesville, Florida) - Dr. Gary Butcher, a leading world expert in poultry medicine, generally recommends several procedures to cope with an outbreak of H5N1 in a poultry population. Dr. Butcher, a professor of veterinary medicine at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, has been consulted on many of the world?s H5N1 outbreaks amongst chickens.

His basic recommendations are: 1) establish a quarantine zone for poultry 2) cull infected poultry populations and any populations within the zone, 3) dispose of destroyed poultry on site, 4) establish rigorous and effective reimbursement program for destroyed chickens, 5) ban live chicken markets, 6) vaccinate in a controlled setting only as part of an entire program.

One of the most important factors to a successful program for H5N1 containment is the reimbursement program for citizens to turn in their poultry says Dr. Butcher. ?You have to have an incentive program built-in so people are actually encouraged.?

Interviewed by Jeanne Hugo

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9366


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[sharon sanders]

Re: FAO -Compensation Needed for Developing Countries

:tiphat: to AlaskaDenise for this:

latest news from this conference....
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/Cris...-R5-Alertnet-5

INTERVIEW-Bird flu steps to boost Africa animal, human health
Wed 6 Dec 2006 8:47:00 GMT
By Alistair Thomson

BAMAKO, Dec 6 (Reuters) - International aid to help Africa fight off bird flu should give a shot in the arm to public health and veterinary services and help the continent tackle its many other health scourges, the U.N. bird flu coordinator said.

"This continent is affected by quite a number of development and humanitarian challenges, some of which are very well known, including malaria and HIV," David Nabarro said ahead of a global summit on bird flu in Mali, West Africa, starting on Wednesday.

"I think African heads of state would be forgiven for saying 'Well, thanks for coming and telling us about this challenge -- we will add it to our list'," Nabarro said.

The summit, which will include a donor conference on Friday to raise more than $1 billion in new funds to fight the disease over the next two to three years, will review progress around the world, including Asia, hardest-hit by the deadly H5N1 virus.

Much of the new money is destined for Africa, which has seen eight countries infected since the last donor conference in Beijing in January.

Experts will discuss how best to monitor and control the disease given weak human and animal health systems on the world's poorest continent.

"Human public health will be improved, which is the health of populations. Yes, I'd like to see hospitals improved, but in the long term what matters is that the health of the wider public gets systematic attention," Nabarro said.

"That may include hospital beds, but it may also include other services provided by surveillance teams and response teams, so yes, there is a capacity for human public health to improve greatly," he said.

Nabarro acknowledged there were few resources available for healthcare in Africa, but said progress was possible with the resources that were available.

"There has been really big investment in this continent on polio surveillance. Why can't we piggy-back influenza surveillance on the back of that?" he said.



CLEANING UP

Since the outbreak began in Asia in 2003, the H5N1 virus has infected at least 258 people who came into contact with sick birds, killing 154 of them, according to World Health Organisation records.

Scientists' greatest fear is that the virus will mutate into a form able to pass from human to human, triggering off a global flu pandemic killing tens of millions of people.

They say that risk can be cut by reducing contact with sick birds by selling and slaughtering poultry more carefully.

"Go to a poultry farm in Thailand these days and it's like going into an operating theatre in a hospital," Nabarro said. "Go to a market ... and the slaughter is carried out under controlled conditions, subject to inspections."

But Thailand and its hygiene rules are a long way from Bamako, the venue for this week's meeting.

Here in the city's open air Dibida market, chickens are slaughtered, plucked and dismembered by workers using no protective clothing within a couple of feet of cages packed with live hens, guinea fowl and other birds waiting to be sold.

"Any effort to prepare globally for a possible pandemic cannot afford to neglect the needs of the animal health sector, and crisis preparedness, in Africa," Nabarro said.

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