Dear Colleagues,
It has been a very exciting period reading various contributions from participants. It was very interesting to note that the older PPR Gurus made contributions but did not dominate the sessions and avoided being seen as imposing preformed ideas and concepts and allowing the new breeds to bring up as many issues as would need to be considered in PPR control and eradication. This was good.
As for networking we in African under the able leadership of IAEA with support from FAO, AU-IBAR has effective continental laboratory diagnostic and sero-monitoring and sero-surveillance networks which apart from electronic communication met annually to compare notes, up-date techniques examine results of inter-country reagent /test technique quality assurance. This was supplemented by expert consultancies to trouble-shoot and  assure copliance with test protocols etc. This ensured we all operated at the same frequency and made interpretation of test results easy. 

We in Nigeria during the H5N1 outbreaks built on the sero-surveillance and sero-monitoring netwok established under PARC and PACE, introduced training in disease awareness and recognition into the continuing education programmes that are mandatory for veterinarians to remain registered to practice. During the AI period we worked out for the first time mechanism to collect samples from the field, kept them in cold conditions and delivered them within 24-48 hours to the National Veterinary research Institute Vom no matter how far the distance utilizing public transport courier services and Mobile phoned to track the samples from dispatch to delivery. We need to revive these national networks right now and get National government commitments to ensure survival of these networks before requesting/investing any donor intervention.
I would like to suggest that groups should be free to form whatever networks they feel they need BUT the FAO/OIE//AU-IBAR/IAEA should co-ordinate their activities.

Prof. timothy Obi MFR


Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 12:56:56 +0000
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Subject: Coming to the end of the PPR-GREN e-conference
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Dear Colleagues, 
 
Tomorrow will be the last day of this e-conference on establishing the PPR-Global Research and Experience Network (GREN). If you have any final comments that you would like to add to session 5 please do so, and for the participants who joined within this last week we may accept contributions on the subjects covered in the other four sessions.  It is also a last chance for AOB, "any other business". 
 
Kind regards,
Moderator.



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