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Paul Rossiter <[log in to unmask]>
Wed, 5 Feb 2014 13:36:10 +0000
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>From: Simon Kihu | Vetworks Eastern Africa <[log in to unmask]>
>To: 'Paul Rossiter' <[log in to unmask]> 
>Sent: Wednesday, 5 February 2014, 16:03
>Subject: RE: From Dr Chris Daborn on the importance of continuing education of frontline workers
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>Dear Colleagues 
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>I really appreciate being part of this e-conference and I thank the conveners for registering me.
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> My contribution is on the community knowledge of PPR and how its effect participatory surveillance processes. Dr Chris Darbon has highlighted the need for evaluating state of PPR knowledge and skills of the frontline workers and animal health managers. In similar breath the knowledge on PPR at community level in countries recently reporting outbreaks is shallow and sometimes scarce because communities have never had continuous encounters with PPR disease on which to build indigenous knowledge. Within Kenya some communities still don’t have a name for PPR while in communities where the disease have already occurred PPR has several names based on how different sections of the community experienced the disease in their herds. A case in point is the Turkana community in Kenya whose experience of PPR in 2005/6/7 is that of a devastating disease of small stock that killed most if their stock. However with subsequent vaccinations and immune disease
 survivors  from those early outbreaks, the disease has subsided and became enzootic. What is happening in this enzootic situation is that communities experience localized outbreaks affecting only naïve lambs and kids and the community cannot relate these outbreaks with PPR as they know it and will report different disease of lids and lambs to Animal health service provider. If the  frontline animal health providers have no knowledge and experience with PPR  it ends up being misdiagnosed unless the magnitude of is large. 
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>General animal health extension on PPR need to carried out in the risky areas to be able to strengthen the surveillance process 
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>I have taken the liberty of highlighting a couple of sentences in Dr Kihu's contribution. They vividly illustrate the problem mentioned and alluded to by other participants that  vaccination, unless carried out to a level that fully immunosterilizes (not my word) the population, may simply help endemicity.   We need to work out how we move forward from this situation.   Moderator. 
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>Simon Kihu
>Programs Coordinator
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>Vetworks Eastern Africa
>Kindaruma Road, 
>Flat A3, Kindaruma Court , 
>P.O. Box 10431 - 00200, Nairobi
>Tel. 254 020 2091525, 254 721 668458, 254 733 429751
>http://www.vetworks-ea.org/
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>From:Establishment of a PPR Global Research and Expertise Network (PPR-GREN) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Paul Rossiter
>Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 11:40 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: From Dr Chris Daborn on the importance of continuing education of frontline workers
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>Dear Colleagues,
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>My name is Chris Daborn and I am currently working as an independent veterinary consultant with a specific interest and experience in the performance of veterinary services, in line with OIE standards, and the development of continuing veterinary education delivered within a formal, veterinary statutory body guided / regulated,  “Continuing Professional Development” [CPD] programme
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>Thank you for registering me to the PPR-GREN discussion which I have been following with great interest. I note that the purpose of this first session is to “identify the key positive and negative factors influencing global, regional and national PPR control today and how these can either be built upon to advantage or resolved”. 
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>A factor that can have both positive and negative elements is the state of PPR knowledge and skills of the frontline workers and those immediately responsible for their management and direction.  Positive where the worker has current, relevant and accurate information, negative where he/she does not.  I would like to suggest that within the plan for PPR-GREN there is a continuing veterinary education / professional development programme – which targets to update the  knowledge and skills of all frontline workers and those immediately responsible for their management and direction. 
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>When I started my career as a vet in Africa, some 40 years ago now, I carried with me a blue hard backed book produced by the Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine (CTVM) titled “Handbook of Animal Diseases in the Tropics”. In those early days getting a phone call from my district veterinary office in the north of Malawi to ask colleagues in HQ for advice could take up to two weeks, and of course in the field we had no communications at all. In these circumstances the CTVM handbook was often my only ready reference and consequently much used. Subsequent editions of the “handbook” have enlarged its size and softened its cover so that it no longer works as a field reference and sits on my book-shelf rather than in my pocket.  
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>One very promising development of the Commonwealth Veterinary Association CPD programme, with which I am involved,  is the piloting of a hard covered 7” tablet [slightly smaller than the original CTVM handbook] that contains not just learning materials  for CPD purposes, but is also a ready reference to the latest and most current veterinary information; a portal to discussion forums / social media; and everything else the magic Android powered world of Google apps can bring. Just as the CTVM brand is under active consideration for re-launch by the University of Edinburgh, I would like to think that the old and much respected CTVM handbook is also about to be reborn - in a smart and field useable e-format!
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>One valuable information resource that we are in the process of putting on the tablet, with an open source commons licence agreement, is the extracted data sheet for PPR from the CABI Animal Health and Production Compendium [AHPC]. This will be supported by a wealth of companion information I collected in the process of producing the PPR extract, inclusive of weblinks to other invaluable knowledge hubs available at FAO, OIE, FVS Onderstepoort [AfriVIP launches 18th Feb] and CFSPH Iowa.
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>In countries like Kenya, where CPD is now a mandatory requirement for all registered veterinarians and veterinary paraprofessionals – there is a real opportunity to ensure colleagues engagement with updated learning materials and to assess their uptake and understanding of such knowledge. Equally, through the CPD process, that we suggest should largely be mentored by subject matter specialists [SMS], there is an extremely valuable opportunity to capture and internalise for policy purposes, field views and experience creating a truly interactive, multi-level, multi-stakeholder e-networking platform. Would such a concept be of interest and good for implementation within the PPR-GEN plan?
>(I am sure it would. Moderator) 
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>Dr Chris Daborn
>TA CVA CPD Programme
>OIE Accredited PVS and Gap Analysis Expert
>TVS Ltd  PO Box 2403 - 00621, Nairobi, Kenya
>+254 715 907962 / skype:  chris.daborn
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>http://www.commonwealthvetassoc.org/CPD.html
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