REPORT - GLOBAL PROGRAMME FOR THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF HIGHLY PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA
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Following the outbreak and spread of the H5N1 virus strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in Southeast Asia in late 2003-early 2004, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), in close collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), developed the FAO/OIE Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. The strategy focused resources on fighting and eradicating HPAI in animals in order to avert spread of the virus to humans and an eventual human influenza pandemic. In order to meet its responsibilities under the Global Strategy, FAO developed a Global Programme for the Prevention and Control of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. That programme, which is implemented by the Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) at FAO headquarters in Rome, emphasises the need for both global and regional coordination in order to help HPAI infected and at- risk countries develop effective prevention and control programmes. The Global Programme is regularly revised and updated to reflect the changing disease situation, to report how FAO expertise is being utilised to combat HPAI, and to report accurately on activities and budget monitoring.