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African swine fever or ASF is a disease that affects pigs and wild suids, is mostly endemic, but sometimes epizootic in isolated pockets within the Africa region. The disease is difficult to eradicate given the absence of registered efficacious vaccine and the existence of wildlife reservoirs and the Argasid tick, Ornithodoros species vectors. The recent pandemic spreading in Asia and Europe has seriously devastated the global pig industry. Since 2019, ASF has become a global priority transboundary animal disease for the Global framework for the progressive control of Transboundary Animal Diseases (GF-TADs) coordination mechanism and a global initiative for the control of ASF has been launched in 2020.
In line with the WTO SPS Agreement, Member Countries have the right to protect animal life or health, to manage overall risk reasonably and effectively.
A country’s import health measures must be based on international standards (WOAH); or import risk analysis (IRA). The import risk analysis is justifiable in the absence of a relevant standard; or when a member country chooses to adopt a higher standard of protection than the international standard provides.
As was the case for the 2021 event, the 2022 training workshop took place under the technical supervision of the WOAH Scientific Department, the WOAH World Animal Health Information and Analysis Department. It was organised under the umbrella of the Global framework for the progressive control of Transboundary Animal Diseases (GF-TADs) Global Initiative for the control of ASF.
The six-day (20 hour) virtual training was attended by 44 individuals over the 6 week period (between 27 September and 1 November 2022), including country representatives (34), expert-trainers (3), WOAH staff and observers (FAO, and the RAHC of ECOWAS).
Attending countries :
Above : Map of attending countries (at least one session)
Overall, 15 trainers or experts were involved in the training, some as recorded interventions from last year’s training (in English, transcribed and translated to French, subtitled, with voice-over) identified :
The six sessions were designed and delivered around the following themes and presentations are available for download below :
Sandrine Guindjoumbi, Gabon
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Lead trainer, Dr Emmanuel Couacy – Hymann (and President of the Biological Standards Commission) during the session (2) on epidemiology and diagnostics.
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Lead trainer, Dr Djassi Edoukou during the session (3) on value chain analysis.
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Cecile Squarzoni. Picture (c) C. Hammami (CIRAD) 2017
Lead trainer, Dr Cécile Squarzoni (risk analysis). Picture archive, courtesy of CIRAD.
