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1 FAO ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELD OF TSETSE AND TRYPANOSOMOSIS CONTROL nd Meeting of the International Scientific Council for Trypanosomiasis Research and Control (ISCTRC) 8-12 September 2013, Khartoum, Sudan Giuliano Cecchi 1, Oumar Diall 2, Massimo Paone 3, Raffaele C. Mattioli 3 1 FAO, Sub-regional Office for Eastern Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 2 FAO, Regional Office for Africa, Accra, Ghana. 3 FAO, Animal Production and Health Division, Rome, Italy.

2 FAO Projects Training Technical assistance Normative work Outline The Programme Against African Trypanosomosis Data management and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Technical assistance Meetings Publications

3 Ongoing FAO projects (1/3) Improving food security in sub-saharan Africa by supporting the progressive reduction of tsetsetransmitted trypanosomosis in the framework of NEPAD Funding: Government of Italy Budget: USD 1M Scope: regional Priority Countries: Burkina Faso, Ghana and Mali (West Africa), Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda (East Africa) Focus: data management and Geographic information Systems (GIS)

4 Ongoing FAO projects (2/3) Development of innovative site-specific integrate animal health packages for the rural poor (West and East Africa) Funding: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Budget: USD 1.6M Priority countries: Kenya, Ghana and Burkina Faso Other beneficiary countries (training): Eritrea, Ethiopia, Burundi, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Mali, Côte d Ivoire, Niger and Benin Focus: Livestock Protective Net Fence

5 Ongoing FAO projects (3/3) FAO technical cooperation projects (funding: FAO Regular Programme Budget) Projet d`appui à la lutte contre les mouches tsétsé et les trypanosomoses animales dans la région de Sikasso au Mali Budget: USD 339,000 Projet pilote d appui à la prévention et à la lutte contre les trypanosomoses animales en Angola Budget: USD 288,000 Opération pilote de prise en charge de la lutte contre la tsé-tsé et la trypanosomose animale par les bénéficiaires dans la Province du Kénédougou au Burkina Faso Budget: USD 341,500

6 Planned FAO projects Appui aux efforts de transfert de technologies éprouvées pour le contrôle de la trypanosomose et d autres parasitoses du bétail dans le Nord et le Centre de la Côte d Ivoire Enhanced trade, and sustainable use of trypanotolerant livestock in West Africa

7 Sudan Training August 2013 Veterinary Research Institute (VRI) / PATTEC Sudan GIS and data management

8 FAO assistance to PATTEC: examples PATTEC Ghana One detailed presentations will be given in An Integrated Strategy of Intervention against Riverine Tsetse in the Upper West Region of Ghana in the framework of PATTEC PATTEC Sudan One detailed presentations will be given in The Spatial distribution of bovine trypanosomosis in tsetse-infested areas of Sudan: past & present PATTEC Uganda Assistance in data management and analysis Focus: The distribution of tsetse and animal trypanosomosis in the Lake Victoria basin of Uganda

9 Normative activities Quality Control/Quality Assurance of trypanocides Joint initiative of FAO/IFAH/GALVmed/IAEA

10 Studies Estimating the costs of tsetse control options: An example for Uganda Mapping the economic benefits of intervening against bovine trypanosomosis in Eastern Africa

11 PAAT Programme against African Trypanosomosis (PAAT) interagency collaboration that since 1997 joins together the efforts of FAO World Health Organization (WHO) International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) African Union-Interafrican bureau for animal resources (AU- IBAR)

12 FAO activities:

13 PAAT: data management and GIS The Atlas of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) WHO-led, jointly implemented with FAO in the framework of PAAT Two detailed presentations will be given on: The Atlas of HAT The risk of HAT The Atlas of tsetse and African animal trypanosomosis (AAT) FAO-led, jointly implemented with IAEA in the framework of PAAT One detailed presentation will be given on developing continental maps of AAT

14 PAAT: technical assistance (1/2) IAEA/FAO/CIRAD on-the-job training on GIS (December 2011) Beneficiaries: South Africa and Mozambique study on GIS and population genetics of G. p. gambiensis Area: West Africa study on the release-recapture of Glossina palpalis gambiensis between river basins Beneficiary: Mali

15 PAAT: technical assistance (2/2) IAEA/FAO collaboration in the framework of the IAEA Coordinated Research Project (CRP) Applying population genetics and GIS for managing livestock insect pests ( ) Beneficiaries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Burkina Faso FAO/CIRAD study on the impact of footbath insecticide treatment on tsetse density Beneficiary: Chad

16 PAAT: meetings PAAT Secretariat meetings organized by FAO February 2011, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia September 2011, Bamako, Mali September 2012, Vienna, Austria Visit of AU-PATTEC Coordinator to FAO Headquarters May 2012 As a follow up, an MoU was signed in July 2012 to formalize the collaboration between FAO and AU- PATTEC

17 Tsetse and Trypanosomosis Information Bulletin Two issues a year Publications

18 Scientific publications Animal trypanosomosis and tsetse Mapping the economic benefits of intervening against bovine trypanosomosis in Eastern Africa Prev Vet Med (In Press) Treating Cattle to Protect People? Impact of Footbath Insecticide Treatment on Tsetse Density in Chad PLoS One 2013, 8(6): e67580 The sequential aerosol technique: a major component in an integrated strategy of intervention against riverine tsetse in Ghana. PLoS Neg Trop Dis, 2013, 7(3): e2135 Release-recapture studies confirm dispersal of Glossina palpalis gambiensis between river basins in Mali. PLoS Neg Trop Dis 2013, 7(4): e2022 Estimating the costs of tsetse control options: an example for Uganda. Prev Vet Med, 2013, 110, Bovine trypanosomiasis in the Upper West Region of Ghana: parasitological, serological and entomological cross-sectional surveys. Res Vet Sci, 2012, 92, Human African trypanosomiasis Estimating and mapping the risk of sleeping sickness PLoS Neg Trop Dis, 2012, 6(10),e1859 Human African trypanosomiasis in non-endemic countries ( ). J Travel Med, 2012, 19(1), Risk for human African trypanosomiasis, Central Africa, Emerg Infect Dis, 2011, 17(12),

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