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Google-translated from French:
Egypt fights against the H5N1 by using the network of the family planning
Cairo TANGI SALA?N. Published on May 14, 2007
PREVENTION the State more touched in the world by the virus, apart from the Asian continent, launches a vast prevention campaign in the provinces of the country to avoid the transmission of the virus to the man.
IN the air shaft, two children try to tear off corn grains to the covetousness of ten chicks, under the eye scornful of a goose couple which pavane in the middle of the street. Ordinary spectacle of the Egyptian countryside: Sehil, with twenty kilometers in the north of Cairo, eighteen thousand inhabitants, undoubtedly ten times more poultries. Since the epidemic of avian flu gained Egypt, it is the kind of scene which the authorities would like to see disappearing: ?We do a large work of information, but it takes time to change the practices?, entrusts, embarrassed, one representing of the ministry for Health.
With its ground streets smashed, its broken drains, its brick buildings capped with pigeon or hen houses out of wooden, Sehil is one of these villages which pushed too quickly, under the effect of the which gallops urbanization. More completely a village, but not yet a city, where the domestic breedings are from now on prohibited.
When the first cases of avian flu were made public, in February 2006, a wind of panic blew on the country. Tens of million animals were cut down, their bodies thrown on the edge of the roads or in the irrigation canals. ?It was a large error?, recognizes one today with the ministry for Health. These radical measurements do not have in fact not stopped the epidemic. Vis-a-vis the authoritative methods of the veterinary services, the peasants have often you them suspect cases to avoid losing their only richness and putting at back their neighbors. In the event of contamination, all the animals located in a radius of four kilometers were indeed cut down. On their side, certain industrialists knowingly infected their hen houses to touch the premiums of demolition rather than to preserve unsaleable poultries because of mistrust of the population. Result: virus H5N1 of the avian flu quickly extended to all the territory. One year later, Egypt deplores 34 human contaminations, including 14 death, in great majority of the women and the children, who deal traditionally with the poultries.
?Massive demolition worsened the crisis of confidence between the population and the health services. Many are those which think that the poultries thrown in the channels contributed to make the disease endemic?, supports Jean-Christophe Gerard, deputy Earth of the men. Last summer, ONG Switzerland has been elected by the UNICEF and the ministry for Health to work out a program of prevention of the avian flu, applied for two months. The task is immense: Egypt counts hundreds of million poultries, raised by more than four million families, for whom they represent a proteinic and financial contribution essential.
Thirteen thousand women in contact with the inhabitants
To recreate a bond between the population and the health services, the authorities were based on the network of proximity set up within the framework of the Family planning. Some 13 000 women were trained to go in contact with the inhabitants, to inform them of the risks and to teach them the elementary rules from hygiene. ?That takes time, but people call us more and more when there is a problem, because they trust us?, ensures D R Amal Zaki, the national director of the ?raidaats?, the agents of the Family planning, selected within the villages in which they work. In Sehil, they are only two. But, already, of the small posters placarded on the doors of the houses or the windows of the stores remind the inhabitants to wash the hands, to carry a mask, or not to leave chickens in freedom.
?Front, it there had poultries everywhere here?, tells Hanna Moustafa by borrowing a path which curves between fields and small real. This day, this ?raidaat? goes for the second time at Safaa, a mother of four children. Since the first visit, the villager applies the safety measures rigorously: she confined her chickens and her ducks in a closed part, she threads a special behaviour when she nourishes them, and disinfects her hands and clothing m?ticuleusement each time. ?But I am always afraid?, entrusts it. ?If an animal dies, lock up it in a bag with chlorine, bury deeply, then prevent [present] it to us so that analyses are made, Hanna Moustafa answers. If you hide the disease, you are likely to die too.?
On the small close market, women sell, for less than one euro the kilo, legs, wings and rammers of believed chicken, without particular protection. ?They are vaccinated poultries?, ensures one of it. In the countryside, the practices have the hard life, and even the fear is not always enough to change the behaviors. ?Paradoxically, Jean-Christophe Gerard underlines, it would undoubtedly be better than there are cases of contamination among the poultries during still a few months, if not it threat will quickly be forgotten. In Egypt, one always reacts in the urgency, seldom in long-term planning.?
http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/200...utilisant_le_reseau_du_planning_familial.html
Google-translated from French:
Egypt fights against the H5N1 by using the network of the family planning
Cairo TANGI SALA?N. Published on May 14, 2007
PREVENTION the State more touched in the world by the virus, apart from the Asian continent, launches a vast prevention campaign in the provinces of the country to avoid the transmission of the virus to the man.
IN the air shaft, two children try to tear off corn grains to the covetousness of ten chicks, under the eye scornful of a goose couple which pavane in the middle of the street. Ordinary spectacle of the Egyptian countryside: Sehil, with twenty kilometers in the north of Cairo, eighteen thousand inhabitants, undoubtedly ten times more poultries. Since the epidemic of avian flu gained Egypt, it is the kind of scene which the authorities would like to see disappearing: ?We do a large work of information, but it takes time to change the practices?, entrusts, embarrassed, one representing of the ministry for Health.
With its ground streets smashed, its broken drains, its brick buildings capped with pigeon or hen houses out of wooden, Sehil is one of these villages which pushed too quickly, under the effect of the which gallops urbanization. More completely a village, but not yet a city, where the domestic breedings are from now on prohibited.
When the first cases of avian flu were made public, in February 2006, a wind of panic blew on the country. Tens of million animals were cut down, their bodies thrown on the edge of the roads or in the irrigation canals. ?It was a large error?, recognizes one today with the ministry for Health. These radical measurements do not have in fact not stopped the epidemic. Vis-a-vis the authoritative methods of the veterinary services, the peasants have often you them suspect cases to avoid losing their only richness and putting at back their neighbors. In the event of contamination, all the animals located in a radius of four kilometers were indeed cut down. On their side, certain industrialists knowingly infected their hen houses to touch the premiums of demolition rather than to preserve unsaleable poultries because of mistrust of the population. Result: virus H5N1 of the avian flu quickly extended to all the territory. One year later, Egypt deplores 34 human contaminations, including 14 death, in great majority of the women and the children, who deal traditionally with the poultries.
?Massive demolition worsened the crisis of confidence between the population and the health services. Many are those which think that the poultries thrown in the channels contributed to make the disease endemic?, supports Jean-Christophe Gerard, deputy Earth of the men. Last summer, ONG Switzerland has been elected by the UNICEF and the ministry for Health to work out a program of prevention of the avian flu, applied for two months. The task is immense: Egypt counts hundreds of million poultries, raised by more than four million families, for whom they represent a proteinic and financial contribution essential.
Thirteen thousand women in contact with the inhabitants
To recreate a bond between the population and the health services, the authorities were based on the network of proximity set up within the framework of the Family planning. Some 13 000 women were trained to go in contact with the inhabitants, to inform them of the risks and to teach them the elementary rules from hygiene. ?That takes time, but people call us more and more when there is a problem, because they trust us?, ensures D R Amal Zaki, the national director of the ?raidaats?, the agents of the Family planning, selected within the villages in which they work. In Sehil, they are only two. But, already, of the small posters placarded on the doors of the houses or the windows of the stores remind the inhabitants to wash the hands, to carry a mask, or not to leave chickens in freedom.
?Front, it there had poultries everywhere here?, tells Hanna Moustafa by borrowing a path which curves between fields and small real. This day, this ?raidaat? goes for the second time at Safaa, a mother of four children. Since the first visit, the villager applies the safety measures rigorously: she confined her chickens and her ducks in a closed part, she threads a special behaviour when she nourishes them, and disinfects her hands and clothing m?ticuleusement each time. ?But I am always afraid?, entrusts it. ?If an animal dies, lock up it in a bag with chlorine, bury deeply, then prevent [present] it to us so that analyses are made, Hanna Moustafa answers. If you hide the disease, you are likely to die too.?
On the small close market, women sell, for less than one euro the kilo, legs, wings and rammers of believed chicken, without particular protection. ?They are vaccinated poultries?, ensures one of it. In the countryside, the practices have the hard life, and even the fear is not always enough to change the behaviors. ?Paradoxically, Jean-Christophe Gerard underlines, it would undoubtedly be better than there are cases of contamination among the poultries during still a few months, if not it threat will quickly be forgotten. In Egypt, one always reacts in the urgency, seldom in long-term planning.?
http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/200...utilisant_le_reseau_du_planning_familial.html