I. Regular meetings on tick-borne diseases and their vectors should be held.
A. These meetings should be attended by senior government veterinary policy-makers and research workers from countries within the East African region in which theileriosis occurs.B. These meetings should be organized under the aegis of the Organization of African Unity in collaboration with international organizations directly involved in tick-borne disease control.
C. The topics for the meetings should be built around recent progress on theileriosis research and control and should include tick-borne diseases and their vectors.
II. There should be a programme for tick-borne disease and vector control within the region which should:
A. be designed initially as a five-year programme of control and be subject to regular reviewB. examine the needs of individual countries and recommend financial support from donors
C. harmonize national and/or regional programmes
D. adopt a standard disease-recording system to monitor the effects of control programmes
E. monitor and advise country projects so that the continuity of national programmes is not lost because of erratic donor support.
III. Training at both professional and technical levels should be encouraged by the following:
A. using the expertise that exists within the countries of the regionB. retaining staff trained in specialized areas within their ministries or departments and sustaining and encouraging their career developments
IV. The long-term success of tick-borne disease control will depend on the existence of a cadre of skilled personnel within individual countries who have adequate resources to implement control programmes. Therefore:
A. in planning projects, expatriate input should be limited and directed towards training local manpowerB. funding for projects should be organized so that the projects are integrated into the national disease control programmes.
