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Project Highlights
INDIA
“Immediate technical assistance to strengthen emergency preparedness for highly pathogenic avian
influenza”
Project code: OSRO/IND/802/USA
Donor: United States of America
Contribution: USD 2 220 000
Implementation: 30/09/08– 30/09/13
Target areas: Assam, Banglore, Bhubaneswar, Dhubri,
Guwahati, Imphal, Jalpaiguri, Kapashera, Kolkata,
Lucknow, Manipur, Meghalya, Odisha, Pune, Shimla,
Sikkim, Thiruvanantpuram, Tripura and West Bengal
Contact
Shyam Bahadur Khadka, FAO Representative, FAO India. [email protected]
Dominique Burgeon, Director, Emergency and Rehabilitation Division. [email protected]
Objective:
Key partners:
Beneficiaries reached:
To contribute to the elimination of the threat posed by the highly pathogenic avian
influenza (HPAI), where India no longer presents the risk of developing a human pandemic
from the H5N1 virus, by controlling the disease in poultry.
The Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries (DADF), the Ministry of
Agriculture (MoA), the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, the World
Organisation for Animal Health, World Health Organization, the International Livestock
Research Institute.
National technical institutions, research institutions, livestock and poultry producers, district
and state veterinary officers, and the international community.
Activities
implemented:
 Investigated crow mortalities and outbreaks in Assam, Sikkim, West Bengal and on
Government poultry farms.
 Trained 450 veterinarians from DADF and State Animal Husbandry Departments on
disease epidemiology and surveillance through Field Epidemiology Training
Programmes.
 Trained 18 High Security Animal Disease Laboratory scientists and three Epidemiology
Unit scientists on the latest phylogenetic techniques.
 Organized two four-day training courses on H5N1 HPAI outbreak investigations for
30 veterinarians.
 Trained more than 5 000 para-veterinarians on disease detection and reporting.
 Conducted a joint study on the molecular epidemiology of H5N1 HPAI.
 Performed a poultry value chain analysis for risk-based, people-centred HPAI control in
Jalpaiguri and Dhubri.
 Provided support to DADF through the periodic submission of standard operating
procedures, policy papers, work plans and guidelines for HPAI surveillance and control.
Results:
 Enhanced national epidemiological capacity through the establishment and staffing of an
Epidemiology Unit at the Animal Quarantine and Certification station in Kapashera, New
Delhi.
 Increased cooperation among national stakeholders through the circulation of updates on
the disease situation in India and adjoining countries, using EpiNet to enhance awareness
of local and global events related to infectious disease epidemiology and surveillance.
 Improved the Government’s technical capacity in detection and response as well as
improved awareness of HPAI detection and response.
 Strengthened DADF and MoA’s epidemiological capacity.
 Enhanced epidemiology understanding of transboundary animal diseases (including HPAI)
and zoonotic diseases in India for rational and targeted control.
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