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Global Conference on Avian & Pandemic Flu Dec. 6-8

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December 5, 2006

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2006/77362.htm


Global Conference to Focus on Avian and Pandemic Influenza December 6-8​

Countries from around the globe as well as senior representatives of the United Nations and other international and regional organizations will come together in Africa December 6-8 to assess programs to counter the threat of avian and pandemic influenza and to boost financial support for preparedness and response efforts worldwide.

The conference, held in Bamako, Mali, will increase help for countries faced by the potential severe social and economic consequences of this human and animal health threat. It will be hosted by the African Union and the Government of Mali in conjunction with the European Union.

This conference will provide an update on outbreaks of the virus across the world and the risks of transmission it poses. It will also review preparedness and response efforts and achievements since the last pledging conference in Beijing in January 2006 and the June 2006 Vienna Senior Officials Meeting of the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza, an initiative launched by President George W. Bush in September 2005. The first meeting of the International Partnership was held in Washington, D.C. in October 2005.


Health ministers, agriculture ministers, other officials, and technical experts will discuss vaccination and communication strategies, as well as means of compensating losses of poultry raisers who destroyed their flocks to contain the spread of the virus. The status of assistance pledges will be assessed, new pledges outlined, and strategies and priorities for the future presented.


The U.S. delegation will be headed by Ambassador John E. Lange, Special Representative on Avian and Pandemic Influenza, U.S. Department of State. The U.S. delegation will include Dr. Kent Hill, Assistant Administrator for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development; Dr. Ron DeHaven, Administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Department of Agriculture; and Dr. David Bell, Coordinator of the International Influenza Unit, Department of Health and Human Services. All of these departments and agencies have significant roles in the U.S. international engagement against the disease.


For further information on the U.S. international engagement on avian influenza, see www.state.gov/g/oes/avianflu and www.pandemicflu.gov.


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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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MINISTERIAL MEETING AND DONOR CONFERENCE
?ONE YEAR OF THE GLOBAL AVIAN INFLUENZA CONTROL AND THE
RISK OF A HUMAN INFLUENZA PANDEMIC?
BAMAKO, 6-8 DECEMBER 2006
PROVISIONAL PROGRAM​
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Objectives :

1. Present an up-to-date report on the H5N1 virus outbreaks in the world, thetransmission risks as well as the progress realized since the Beijing and Viennaconferences. Provide the participants with the latest information on communication, compensation and vaccination strategies reminding them of the conclusions obtained at the major technical meetings and in particular the importance of coming up with integrated national plans of action that are coordinated at the regional and global
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2. Provide the countries with an opportunity to present their strategies, objectives and concrete achievements in the control of the epizootic and their preparedness for a possible pandemic.

http://www.avianinfluenzaconference4.org/fileadmin/user_upload/PDF_Uploads/BAMAKO_CONFERENCE_Agenda_-2006-11-21.pdf​
 
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