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Global Programme for the prevention and control of H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza - February 2008

Year of publication 2008

Pages 38

Author Animal Production and Health Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This document is a revision and update of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Global Programme for the Prevention and Control of H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, which was first formulated at the end of 2005 . It describes how FAO implements its responsibilities as presented in the joint FAO/OIE Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza . Whereas the FAO/OIE Global Strategy sets a 10-year vision for immediate-, m edium- and long-term responses to HPAI, the FAO Global Programme is time-bound for three years, 2006-2008, and addresses immediate response needs while maintaining a perspective on the longer-term strategy. FAO’s Global Programme is designed in line with this vision and the overall objective “to safeguard animal health and livelihoods from the threat of HPAI and mitigate the risk of a human pandemic through prevention and control of H5N1 HPAI in the poultry sector at three inter-connected l evels: global, regional and national”.

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