PPR

Peste des Petits Ruminants

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Priority Transboundary Animal Disease (TAD) 2021 – 2025 Regional Strategy

 

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Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) or sheep and goat plague is a contagious fatal viral disease of small ruminants characterized by fever, pneumonia, diarrhea, and inflammation of the respiratory and digestive tracts. The morbidity and mortality rates of PPR can reach up to 100%.

Therefore, it has a severe socio-economic impact in the livestock industry in countries whose economy relies on small ruminants, particularly in endemic poor countries.

After the successful global eradication of rinderpest in 2011, FAO and OIE have targeted PPR as the next aim for its global eradication. PPR virus (PPRV) primarily infects goats and sheep, but over the last decades the host range of PPRV has been continuously expanding to many other non-natural hosts by unknown mechanisms. Since its first report in 1942 in Cote-d’Ivoire, PPR has spread far beyond its origin in Western Africa. PPRV reemerged in many African countries including Tanzania (2008 & 2013) (Swai et al), Kenya (2014) (Kihu et al), Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola (2012) (Baron et al), and in North Africa such as in Tunisia (2012–2013), Morocco (2015), Algeria (2014) (Kardjadj et al), and Burundi (2017) (Niyokwishimra et al). A risk assessment of PPRV infection in developing countries indicated that ~63% of small ruminants were at risk of infection (Libeau et al). Therefore, over the last two decades, PPR dissemination has increased exponentially. According to OIE data, PPR was reported in 39 countries in 2007, 43 countries in 2013, and is present in over 70 countries across Asia, Africa, and Europe.

Map. Five regions of Africa identified in the Pan-African PPR programme and the FAO/OIE GCES.

 

 

 

 

OIE and FAO have identified PPR as the next target for global eradication by 2030.

Global consensus has been reached on the need to control and eradicate PPR. The PPR Global Control and Eradication Strategy (PPR GCES) was endorsed at the International Conference for the Control and Eradication of PPR, organized by FAO and OIE, and held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 31 March – 2 April 2015. Eradication of the disease by 2030 is its goal. The strengthening of veterinary services (VS) envisaged in support of stamping out PPR will also help to control other small ruminant diseases prioritized by stakeholders. The push for PPR global eradication is framed as a 15-year process running to 2030. The first five-year PPR Global Eradication Programme (PPR GEP) lays the foundation for implementing the strategy. The activities of these first five years influence, and are complementary to achieving, the goals and targets set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The PPR GEP aims to work with partners to strengthen implementation models, and to reactivate and build on the partnerships forged by the Global Rinderpest Eradication Programme (GREP). The PPR/GEP, as part of the PPR/GCES more widely, is a multi-country, multi-stage process that will decrease epidemiological risk levels and increase prevention and control. The four stages it sets out involve assessment, control, eradication and maintenance of PPR-free status:

Fig. Progressive PPR control and eradication – the four stages of the PPR GCES.

Relevant regional policy / coordination conferences / consultations

Report PPR Roadmap Meeting VII (Eastern Africa) Naivasha (2019) English / Anglais
Report PPR Roadmap Meeting VII (Eastern Africa) Naivasha (2019) English / Anglais

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Report PPR Roadmap Meeting    II (Western Africa) Abidjan (2019) English / Anglais
Report PPR Roadmap Meeting II (Western Africa) Abidjan (2019) English / Anglais

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Report PPR Roadmap Meeting    II (Southern Africa) Lusaka (2019) English / Anglais
Report PPR Roadmap Meeting II (Southern Africa) Lusaka (2019) English / Anglais

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Rapport feuille de route PPR II (Afrique du nord) Tunis (2019) Français / French
Rapport feuille de route PPR II (Afrique du nord) Tunis (2019) Français / French

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Rapport feuille de route PPR I (Afrique du nord) Tunis (2016) Français / French
Rapport feuille de route PPR I (Afrique du nord) Tunis (2016) Français / French

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Report PPR Roadmap Meeting   I (Eastern Africa) Kampala (2015) English / Anglais
Report PPR Roadmap Meeting I (Eastern Africa) Kampala (2015) English / Anglais

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OIE and FAO Reference Centres in Africa

FAO Reference Centre for technical assistance in quality control of veterinary vaccines

OIE Collaborating Centre for the quality control of veterinary vaccines

Dr Nick Nwankpa
Pan African Veterinary Vaccines Centre (PANVAC)
African Union
P.o.box 1746, Debre Zeit,
ETHIOPIA

Tel: +251 – 11 4338001
Email: [email protected]
Email: [email protected]

 

OIE / FAO Global Research and Expertise Networks

OIE / FAO Global Research and Expertise Network (GREN) for PPR

FAO Blogs on PPR

13 January 2021

Eradication of Peste des petits ruminants disease in sight

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More information on PPR on this website

PPR

Fostering a broad coalition to enable the eradication of PPR from Africa

September 27, 2019
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Regional training on the OIE procedure for PPR official status recognition and endorsement of national official control programme

June 13, 2019
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Chingola, Zambia

SADC Countries agree on common strategy to stop PPR spread

June 08, 2011
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(North Africa)

Tunis, Tunisia

Meeting of the “Drafting Committee” on official disease status and official control programmes related to FMD and PPR

May 12, 2014
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Tunis, Tunisia

2nd workshop on Official FMD and PPR country status : advantages for North African countries

November 12, 2013
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