| dc.description.abstract | The Rinderpest Eradication Strategy Workshop for Southern Sudan 1-2ndAugust 2001 was organised
by VSF-Belgium for the Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS) Southern Sector Livestock Programme
under the co-ordination of the Pan African Programme for the Control of Epizootics (PACE), OAUIBAR, and funded by the Community-based Animal Health and Participatory Epidemiology Unit
(CAPE) of PACE.
The aim of the workshop was to present the new strategy for the last stage of rinderpest eradication
from Sudan to the organisations involved in livestock activities in OLS Southern Sector. Participants
included representatives from OAU-IBAR PACE Programme, FAO-OLS, NGOs and counterparts
from both southern and northern sectors.
Presentations were made on the global status of rinderpest and strategy for eradication, the current
rinderpest status of Sudan, the new rinderpest eradication strategy for Sudan, rinderpest surveillance,
vaccination policy, emergency response, and raising awareness of the new strategy. The participants
identified the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders in the new strategy and developed one-year
action plans for its implementation.
The strategy can be summarized as follows: Sudan is divided into three epidemiological zones; the
provisionally free zone, the surveillance zone, and the infected zone. These zones will become
effective from 1/1/02. Activities to be carried out in the infected zone are; targeted vaccination
campaigns in selected communities to be completed by 30/6/02, all other mass vaccination activities
to be completed by 31/12/01, intensive active and purposive surveillance, and the control of any
confirmed rinderpest outbreaks. Activities to be carried out in the surveillance zone are; all mass
vaccination to have ceased by 31/12/01, intensive active and purposive surveillance, and the control
of any confirmed rinderpest outbreaks. Activities in the provisionally free zone are; all mass
vaccination to have ceased by 31/12/01, routine surveillance, and the control of any confirmed
rinderpest outbreaks.
The participants raised some concerns in relation to the implementation of this strategy that included;
availability of funding to implement, adequate laboratory support for surveillance, short timeframe to
introduce the strategy, emergency response capacity, access and security to implement fully, and the
role and remuneration of community-based animal health workers. | |
