Animal Diseases and Bird Flu
Publiée le : 28 June 2006
In late April 2006 against a backdrop of fears over the bird flu epidemic, the West African regional control centre for animal diseases, created in Bamako under the auspices of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources (IBAR), hosted various organisations running programmes to fight animal diseases on the African continent.
The meeting was the occasion to review the different programmes in progress and the funding mechanisms for these. France is closely involved in two of them: the partnership for improving African livestock systems (African Livestock-Alive) and the Pan African Programme for the Control of Epizootics (PACE), coordinated by IBAR. France also provides vets and experts to support scientists of African research institutes partnered with the Institut Pasteur of Paris (the institutes of Tananarive, Dakar, Niamey, Yaoundé and Bangui). Further assistance is provided to African veterinary laboratories by the Animal Production and Veterinary Medicine Department of CIRAD (French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development), notably for avifauna monitoring activities.
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