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kick-started in Tanzania
Tanzania is the first country on the African continent to pilot the joint risk assessment (JRA) tool, developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO),
the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the World Health Organization (WHO). As one of the Operational Tools in the Tripartite Zoonoses Guide, JRA supports inter-sectoral risk assessment for zoonotic...[Read
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Almost a year after Ghana launched its national strategy to fight drug-resistant superbugs, strategic One Health players including animal, human, plant, and environment experts,
and the private sector, gathered to assess the progress of the implementation of the FAO-developed AMR National Action Plan using the Progressive Management Pathway (PMP) tool. Antimicrobials play a critical role in treating animal diseases, hence their use
is necessary to ensure food security, human well-being, and animal welfare...[Read more]
Ethiopia launched a five-year (2019-2023) National Action Plan for Health Security (NAPHS) on 15 March 2019 at the United Nations Conference Center in attendance of Deputy Prime
Minister, H.E. Demeke Mekonnen; key government One Health sectors; donors; UN Agencies; and other development partners attended the event. Having a strong health security capacity is considered as the first line of defense against public health threats...[Read
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With Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) posing a serious threat to cattle production in sub-Saharan Africa, FAO released a new publication, Control of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia:
A policy for coordinated actions, to deliver evidence-based policies for the sound control of this devastating disease for stakeholders at all levels. Affecting 26 countries in the region, the disease, which spreads through the air, is causing mortality, loss
of milk production, and drastic weight loss...[Read more]
Alarmed by the continuing threat of infectious diseases that can spread between animals and humans in Asia and the Pacific, three international organizations have announced they
are increasing their coordination to respond more effectively across the region. From rabies to zoonotic...[Read
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The Royal Government of Cambodia and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will strengthen collaboration in response to the first African swine fever
(ASF) incursion reported in the country. Cambodian animal health authorities reported that the first ASF outbreak was in Ratanakiri province, northeast of the country bordering with Lao PDR and Viet Nam. The Cambodian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries (MAFF) immediately declared...[Read more]
The Directorate General of Livestock and Animal Health Services (DGLAHS), Ministry of Agriculture together with the Emergency Center for Transboundary Animal Diseases of the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO ECTAD Indonesia) and a number of cross-sectoral partners raise public awareness on the threats of diseases and antimicrobial resistance...[Read
more]
Recent publications
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FAO Myanmar Newsletter ::: Issue no. 1 (March 2019)
Upcoming meetings
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43rd General Session of the EuFMD
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Kenya workshop for oral presentations of frontline ISAVET field projects
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Sierra Leone workshop for oral presentations of frontline ISAVET field projects
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The Sub-regional Global Framework for Progressive Control of Transboundary Animal Diseases (GF-TAD) Meeting for ASEAN
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Opérationnalisation durable de l’approche « Une Seule Santé » en Afrique
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Liberia workshop for oral presentations of frontline ISAVET field projects
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Validation of the One Health Strategic Plan review (2013-2018)
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Technical Workshop of the FAO Project 'Developing National Implementation capacities for the control of Tsetse and Animal African Trypanosomosis
In Ethiopia'
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World Veterinary Day
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Training course on rapid risk assessment methods and approaches
More Interesting links
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Vietnamese
Authorities Control Spread of African Swine Fever with the Use of Nuclear-derived Techniques |
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