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DocumentOUTbreak COSting Tool for Pig Diseases (OutCosT-Pig) – Instructions for Users
The Cost of Pig Diseases
2024Also available in:
No results found.Animal diseases affect not only animal productivity and welfare, but also human welfare and economy. Transboundary Animal Diseases (TADs) can have a significant economic impact at farm, regional and national levels. The costs of TADs are usually supported by government veterinary services, but there are also costs to industry and small producers. The economic impact of an epidemic varies considerably between regions and countries, depending on the disease, the number of affected premises when the disease is first diagnosed, the measures taken to control or eradicate the outbreak, and the structure of the livestock industry. Knowing the costs of disease outbreaks is essential to prioritize the allocation of resources, improve resource management and provide a basis for planning future interventions. It can also guide the evaluation of control strategies in terms of cost and impact, and help to increase administrative transparency and public confidence. The objective of this manual is to help OutCosT users understand and use the tool to evaluate the direct costs of an epidemic (real or scenario) and the control measures applied in a country. OutCosT does not consider indirect costs related to global trade, long-term effects, or human health and welfare. -
BookletFAO Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD). Protecting people and animals. Annual report 2017 2018
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As part of the USAID Emerging Pandemic Threats 2 (EPT2) programme, FAO works closely with the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Environment and Forestry to build greater capacity to address emerging infectious diseases and zoonoses. The global health threat of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), was given greater attention within the ECTAD programme this year and both AMR and communicating One Health to the public will receive even more support in the final year of the EPT2 programme. To accomplish its objectives, the FAO Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) works closely with Government of Indonesia line ministries, local government Livestock and Animal Health Services, WHO, USAID, the Australia AIP-EID project, private sector partners and civil society organisations. -
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Eight years of immediate technical assistance activities strengthening emergency preparedness for HPAI in Viet Nam
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The history of the battle to control HPAI in Viet Nam is relatively short but within the past 10 years there have been many insights developed, as well as some twists and turns in the road to the current level of success. As the concerted HPAI effort supported by FAO is coming to an end, albeit to be adapted into a broader One Health approach to animal health and zoonotic diseases, it was considered timely that a retrospective overview of the programme be produced to capture key elements and lessons that have arisen. A key adjunct for this retrospective is the FAO document ‘Lessons from HPAI – a technical stocktaking of outputs, outcomes, best practices and lessons learned from the fight against highly pathogenic avian influenza in Asia 2005-2011’. Consistent with that stocktake, this retrospective on the HPAI control effort in Viet Nam does not attempt to be a comprehensive compilation of all the outputs and outcomes from the HPAI programme, but is rather a synopsis that captures the key experiences and challenges faced in Viet Nam in addressing this complex disease problem, concentrating on the USAID inputs but also with reference to other project areas as appropriate. This document examines the HPAI situation in Viet Nam at several points during the last 8 years through the prism of activities and outcomes in key areas such as coordination, surveillance, laboratory services, vaccination, biosecurity, socio-economics and communications and advocacy.
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