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| Date: | Wed, 12 Feb 2014 06:41:52 +0000 |
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Dear Colleagues,
My name is Eunice Ndung’u and I am currently working at Veterinary Research Centre, Muguga, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute. I wish to thank the GF TADs PPR Working Group for registering me to the PPR-GREN E-conference. Valuable inputs to ongoing PPR E-conference have been made by various contributors. In addition to inputs already made, the proposed strategy for PPR eradication process should also take into consideration the following:
1) Coordinated technology transfer to all network laboratories:-Collaborations between well developed international laboratories and other laboratories should be strengthened or established where they are nonexistent. This will facilitate technology transfer especially specific diagnostic tools that are critical to PPR surveillance.
2) High cost of reagents/kits/ diagnostic tools:The cost of acquisition of reagents and test kits would be minimised or eliminated altogether if the technology for preparating various diagnostic kits is transferred to selected laboratories located in regions where PPR is endemic (many African countries from Northern Africa to Tanzania, in the Middle East, in Central and Southern Asia and in parts of China).
3)There is need to ensure quality control /assurance in all laboratories dealing with research and diagnosis:- Implementation of international standards/quality management systems and external quality assurance programme that includes participation proficiency testing programme.This will assure the quality and reliability of results generated by laboratories.
4) Eradication strategy to includeeffective coordination systems that ensure that PPR control and subsequent eradication activities utilize standardized and harmonised surveillance guidelines.
Eunice Karungari Ndung’u
Senior Research Officer,
Veterinary Research Centre, Muguga,
Kenya Agricultural Research Institute.
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