Responses to Avian Influenza and State of
Fourth Global Progress Report
UN System Influenza Coordinator & The World Bank, October 2008
Available online as PDF file [105p.] at:
The report:
i) describes international financial assistance provided to date;
ii) assesses national capacities to respond to HPAI [Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza] and prepared for the next influenza pandemic;
iii) analyses implications of this progress for animal and human health and
iv) recommends some key next steps.
It focuses on progress with responses to avian influenza and with pandemic preparedness between June 2007 and June 2008, but also looks back over the last three years. Information was provided by national authorities from 148 countries that responded to an UNSIC survey questionnaire supplemented by with case studies, interviews and reports from UN system bodies and other partners. The information on donor pledges, commitments and disbursements has been collected by the World Bank via a donor polling exercise.
A global analysis of the situation now in mid to late 2008 indicates fewer outbreaks in poultry, fewer newly infected countries, fewer human cases and fewer deaths compared to the same period in 2006 and 2007. Over 50 of the 61 countries that have experience an H5N1 outbreak, have successfully eliminated the disease.
However, the virus remains entrenched in several countries and the threat of further outbreaks of HPAI in poultry (and sporadic cases in humans) persists. The threat of an influenza pandemic remains unchanged. While these findings suggest that HPAI strategies are successful when properly implemented, they also highlight that sustained vigilance and continued investment is needed in both surveillance and capacity to respond to HPAI Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza…”
Contents
Executive summary
1. Background and Introduction
2. International Financial and Technical Assistance
3. Capacity to Reduce the Threats of Avian Influenza to Animals and Humans
4. Preparedness for Mitigating the Impacts of the Next Influenza Pandemic
5. Conclusions & Recommendations
Annex I Country Tables
Annex II Additional Charts of Data Collected from National Authorities
Annex III World Bank Operations under the Global Programme for Avian and Human Influenza
Annex IV Tables on Pledges Commitments and Disbursements
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