Support through the Joint GoV - UN Program on 'Strengthening the Management of Public Health Emergencies in Viet Nam - with a focus on the Prevention and Control of Diseases of Epidemic Potential including Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI)'
Objectives: To reduce the health risk to humans from avian influenza by controlling the disease at source in domestic poultry, by detecting and responding promptly to human cases, and by preparing for the medical consequences of a human pandemic.
Australian Contribution: A$5,000,000 to Phase I & II
Total cost:
- Phase II: US$ 16.2 million
Duration:
- Phase I: October 2005 – July 2006
- Phase II: August 2006 – December 2010
Location: Nationwide
Support Components:
Component 1- Enhanced Coordination
The Joint Program Phase II will support enhanced coordination, building on the support provided during Phase I. This will include:
- national preparedness and planning in the human and animal health sectors, and simulation exercises
- policy and strategy development, including support to the implementation of the law on communicable diseases as well as regulations for veterinary services and quarantine;
- support to programme coordination and management including support to central and provincial coordination in the human and animal health sectors
- support to donor coordination including the proposed establishment of a Partnership for Avian and Human Influenza (PAHI) and thematic working groups.
Component 2 - HPAI Control and Eradication in the Agriculture Sector
The Program will support Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development's overall HPAI control and eradication strategy, focussing on four sub-components:
- strengthening veterinary services
- disease control
- surveillance and epidemiological investigation
- poultry sector restructuring.
Component 3 - HPAI Prevention and Pandemic Preparedness in the Health Sector
The program will support implementation of the Ministry of Health's strategy for HPAI prevention and pandemic preparedness in the human health sector, focussing on:
- strengthening surveillance and the early warning and response system
- assessing the capacity of the curative care system
- public awareness and behavioural change activities.
Outcomes:
- Improved coordination of Vietnamese and International agencies supporting implementation of the OPI
- Progressive control of HPAI in domestic poultry and improved overall national and local capacity to detect and respond to outbreaks of zoonotic and other diseases in animals
- Strengthened national and local capacity to prepare for, respond to and recover from public health emergencies caused by infectious diseases such as HPAI
- Increased public awareness generally and within specific population groups on critical HPAI-related risk factors resulting in effective behavioural changes.
Executing Agencies:
The Joint Viet Nam - UN Program on Avian Influenza Prevention and Control
Contact person: Ms Pham Thanh Hang, Program Officer
Sustainable Development Cluster
UNDP, 25-29 Phan Boi Chau, Hanoi
Tel (84 4) 942 1495 (ext 151)
Fax (84 4) 942 2267
pham.thanh.hang@undp.org
Vietnamese Counterparts
- Ministry of Health
- Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
AusAID Contact
Ms Nguyen Thu Hang
Activity Manager
No. 8 Dao Tan, Ba Dinh, Hanoi
Tel.: 84 4 8317754/55 ext 171
Fax: 84 4 8317706
hang.nguyen@dfat.gov.au
2008
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