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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:02:19 +0000
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Dear Dr Afzal,
It is good news to hear that the Pakistan authorities are planning a PPR
progressive control programme. I hope that you receive appropriate funding
to address the problem with sufficient intensity.
My reason for responding to your message is that you have identified two
issues which are of major importance to PPR control both nationally and
globally. As was shown with rinderpest, vaccine quality is an important
matter to get right. Quality assurance of PPR vaccines requires two
exercises. Firstly, strict adherence to international norms for vaccine
production with specific SOPs for PPR vaccine combined with stringent
in-process controls. Secondly, on top of this, ideally there should be an
independent vaccine quality assurance laboratory to examine vaccines
post-production. This can be national, provided that it is independent of
the vaccine producer, or regional as in the case of PANVAC.
Your other point is also one that demands action. Maintaining adequate cold
chain in remote areas with little infrastructure is very demanding and very
expensive. It was a major constraint to rinderpest control programmes
initially. There are perhaps two ways that this can be addressed. Firstly
taking a One Health approach, about which we hear so much these days, could
involve sharing cold chain facilities between human and animal vaccination
programmes to cut costs and favour maintenance of equipment. I believe that
this was done effectively in Southern Sudan in the 1990s. However, probably
the most beneficial development would be to get a quality-assured
thermostable formulation of attenuated vaccine on the market as quickly as
possible, as was done with rinderpest. Work at ILRI has progessed well and
I understand that the final stages of validation of an appropriate PPR
vaccine are in progress. To my mind this work should be promoted and funded
by all national and international agencies concerned to get the process
finished in a timely manner and to make a bank of vaccine seed available
for supply together with production SOPs and training.In addition regional
banking of quality-assured vaccines could help to ensure adequate supplies.
To my mind these must be considered as important components of any global
programme in support of national efforts.
Best wishes
Peter Roeder

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My contact details are:
Prof Peter Roeder OBE, FRCVS, PhD, MSc, BVetMed
Taurus Animal Health
Hollyhedge Cottage
Spats Lane
Headley
Hampshire GU35 8SY
UK
Tel:+441428717396
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On 30 January 2014 17:35, Afzal, MuhammadImam (FAOPK) <
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> Dear Colleagues,
> Pakistan is currently planning activities to undertake a USDA funded
> project on Progressive control of PPR in Pakistan. One issue we faced in
> the beginning was ascertaining quality of locally prepared vaccine. We have
> now sent the vaccine batches to PanAfrican Vaccine Centre.  OIE/FAO
> reference labs should have this facility.
> The other issue we foresee is keeping reconstituted vaccine in cool chain
> in vaccination campaign under smallholders scattered sheep and goats
> production system.
> Dr. M. Afzal
> Project Coordinator
> Progressive control of PPR in Pakistan
> FAO Pakistan Office
> Islamabad
>
> From: Paul Rossiter <[log in to unmask]<mailto:
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> Reply-To: Paul Rossiter <[log in to unmask]<mailto:
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> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 18:42:16 +0500
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> Subject: PPR-GREN e-conference: Introduction to session one.
>
>
> Dear Colleagues,
> Welcome to the opening session of this e-conference.  Following the
> success of rinderpest eradication the international animal health community
> has identified peste des petits ruminants (PPR) as one of the possible new
> livestock disease for eradication. It is widely agreed that the basic
> technical tools and epidemiological understanding, which contributed to the
> eradication of rinderpest, already exist for PPR control and there is no
> reason why a progressive programme of global control of PPR cannot begin
> immediately.  Nevertheless, despite these tools and the lessons learned
> from rinderpest eradication, PPR continues to expand its global
> distribution and cause significant economic losses for many of the world's
> poorest people.  The Joint OIE-FAO GF-TADs initiative has established a
> joint working group to promote progressive control of PPR. The working
> group recognizes the need for the global control strategy to be based upon
> a solid foundation of research and field experience and to share this
> innovative knowledge as widely and freely as possible. An internet -based
> forum to communicate with as many as possible of the people and
> organizations working on PPR is seen to be a potentially effective way to
> do this, and OIE and FAO will launch "The PPR Global Research and
> Experience Network" (PPR-GREN).
> As stated in the invitation note, the overall purpose of this e-
> conference is to invite you to share your opinion and understanding gained
> from working with PPR to guide the formulation of PPR-GREN in a manner that
> will satisfy the needs of all stakeholders. It is anticipated that the
> network will prove a sustainable and popular medium for accelerating the
> uptake of new ideas and methodologies for PPR control.  It is important
> that the network should involve and appeal to those actors involved in the
> day to day control of PPR in the field as well as those working in research.
> This first session aims 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. It will benefit from
> your reports of success in PPR control and your advice on how this can be
> replicated elsewhere:  for instance; improved vaccination strategies that
> have brought about a sustainable reduction in disease incidence, disease
> surveillance that has facilitated better use of limited resources,
> imaginative use of the private animal health sector to implement both
> vaccination and disease reporting, etc. The conference is open to the most
> seemingly small and perhaps unremarkable operational changes that have
> improved control through, for example, better management of cold chains in
> difficult areas, increased participation of livestock owners in disease
> reporting, or identifying immunized and un-immunized herds and flocks.
>  These and other practical observations may be especially useful to other
> colleagues and the network proposes to share and propagate your ideas and
> innovations with them.
> Equally importantly the conference needs to hear of the technical and
> operational difficulties you may be facing plus how you see these being
> resolved. Does it require fundamental research or operational change or
> might another participant to the conference already have the answer?   At
> the end of the first two weeks we hope to have widespread consensus of
> where efforts are being met with success and where there are major
> difficulties facing global progressive control allowing us to start to
> define the main areas requiring new techniques and new thinking. Needless
> to say, we do not expect this first PPR e-conference to solve every problem
> facing PPR control but it should allow us the opportunity to assess how
> effective internet interaction can be and how a PPR network might build on
> this.
> After identifying these major areas of achievement and constraint the
> second and third sessions of the conference will attempt to prioritize
> specific technical and field implementation aspects of improved PPR control
> as themes and sub-themes for discussion and research within PPR-GREN; the
> fourth session will discuss what other preventable diseases of sheep and
> goats could be included for progressive control with PPR.     How the
> proposed PPR-GREN will actually operate and interact with all individual
> and group stakeholders in research, field and policy making roles will be
> discussed in the final week of the conference which will close on Friday
> March 7th. A summary report of the e-conference should be available in
> early April.
> Please try to keep your contributions to the recommended maximum of
> 500-600 words (approximately 1 page), preferably less. If your
> contributions cover topics scheduled for a different session they will be
> held back until that session.   Contributions covering more than one
> session may be edited so that they can be read and discussed at the
> appropriate times. We have nearly 200 participants and at this early stage
> we do not all know each other. Therefore, please add your full name, title,
> address and affiliation (if any) to each correspondence, at least to begin
>  with, and if possible one or two lines stating your main interest and
> involvement in PPR control. (This will not be part of the 500 words).
> We look forward to your contributions and to a thoughtful and productive
> conference.
> Paul Rossiter - moderator.
>
>
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> St Michael's House,
> EX17 4LA UK
> Tel +44 (0)1363 866817
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> P.O.Box 30087 ,
> GPO 00100 Nairobi.
> Tel: +254 (0) 733 994456
>
> Skype: paul,rossiter01
>
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My contact details are:
Prof Peter Roeder OBE, FRCVS, PhD, MSc, BVetMed
Taurus Animal Health
Hollyhedge Cottage
Spats Lane
Headley
Hampshire GU35 8SY
UK
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Landline:+441428717396
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