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GIEFA: Inter-American Group for the Eradication of Foot-and- Mouth Disease

GIEFA: Inter-American Group for the Eradication of Foot-and- Mouth Disease Presentation for the 18th OIE America’s Conference Florianopolis, Brazil Nov 30th, 2006 Sebastião Costa Guedes GIEFA Chairman.

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GIEFA: Inter-American Group for the Eradication of Foot-and- Mouth Disease

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  1. GIEFA: Inter-American Group for the Eradication of Foot-and- Mouth Disease Presentation for the 18th OIE America’s Conference Florianopolis, Brazil Nov 30th, 2006 Sebastião Costa Guedes GIEFA Chairman

  2. Hemispheric Conference for the Eradication of Foot-and-Mouth Disease, Houston, TX., March 2004 with sponsorship of the PAHO and USDA. • FAO,IDB,IICA,OIE,OIRSA,WB,WHO,WTO participants . • “Houston Declaration”. • GIEFA Group (12 members/6 COHEFA’s regions +4 members Par, Bol, Equa and Venez. from public and private sectors). • Plan of Action for 5 years: 2006-2010.

  3. Plan GIEFA • US$48.323.000 for five year project, it means US$ 9.665.000 /year (original budget); • These resources should be complementary to nationals FMD eradication projects; • Resources come from donors or sponsors as well from solicited loans; • Donors or sponsors can choice theirs partners to receive and to manage the funds; • Possible resources public or private from FMD free areas(PL 480 USA).

  4. Plan GIEFA • GIEFA will be responsible to analyze the regional plans, the schedule of activities and the chronogram of investments to give his approval to the donors. • The follow-up of the investments and tasks can be made by GIEFA too, if desirable by the donors.

  5. Objective and Final Goal Of PHEFA. • Eradication of the FMD, untill the year 2010; • Preventing the disease from entering free areas in the Continent; • Strenghtening the zoosanitary infraestructure of the countries in the region; • Integration Public and Private.

  6. GIEFA ACTIONS PLAN • Harmonize control/eradication actions, by: • Strengthening local level structures; • Integrating livestock owners, industry and public sector; • Creating Joint multinational programs on risk border areas • Strengthening of regional institutions; • Laboratory Improvement – High security lab at PANAFTOSA-PAHO/WHO; • Prevention and Epidemiological Surveillance.

  7. GIEFA’s Priority Zones Venezuela River Amazonas banks +unknown risk zones northern Brasil Ecuador Border Brasil-Bolivia Chaco:ARG-BOL-PAR Border Brasil-Paraguai

  8. THE BEST MOMENT FOR THE ERADICATION OF FMD IS NOW ! • The outbreaks had drastic reduction; • Problem persists in very delimited critical areas; • There is strong motivation for the private sector to cooperate due the great losses with the last outbreaks.

  9. FMD EVOLUTION IN THE SOUTH AMERICA (1976-2005)

  10. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASEOUTBREAKS in SOUTH AMERICA 2002-2006* Venezuela: 9 - 52 - 34 - 13 - 7 Guyanas: Free Colombia: 8- 0 - 2 - 1- 0 Brasil: 0 - 0 - 0 - 39 -1 Ecuador: 108 - 6 - 42 - 23 - 7 Peru: 0 - 0 - 0 - 26 - 0 Paraguay: 0 - 1 - 1 - 0 - 0 Bolívia: 88 - 9 - 19 - 0 - 0 Uruguay: 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 Argentina: 1 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 2 Chile:Free * Untill October 2006

  11. 2006 FMD OUTBREAKS SOUTH AMERICA, 2005-2006 FMD OUTBREAKS, PER ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT

  12. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FUNDSFMD Programs South America, 1990-2005 (US$)

  13. FMD Regionalization, South America, March, 2006 After May 06,OIE gave aproval for south of Pará Free without vaccination Free with vaccination No libre *Brazil: PR,SP,MG,GO,BA, RJ,ES,SE,MS,MT,TO,DF Argentina: North of Paralel 42 Status temporally suspended*

  14. GIEFA : Last Actions 2006 • March- meeting in S.Paulo with meat exporters and cattlemen’s leadership of Mercosul. • Proposal- US$ 5 /Ton exported bovine meat to support the 5years plan(US$ 48,323 tsd).

  15. Reactions to the Proposal • Argentina and Brazil in principle were in favour, but they asked for more details about the plans for each region. • Argentina had legal restrictions to export at that moment. Now the situation is better, but not normal.

  16. GIEFA: NEW BUDGET TOTAL FOR THE 5 YEARS OF THE PLAN

  17. GIEFA: FOLLOWING ACTIONS • The new budget will be discussed with the private sector of the region.(International resources will be received only to assist the regions or countries in need of our continent: Bolivia, Equador and Paraguay). • Venezuela will be visited and invited to integrate the plan.

  18. GIEFA: SOME CONCLUSIONS AFTER MEETINGS WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR. • They prefer to have freedom to choice theirs partners for the donation or sponsorship; • They are not in accordance with the management of the resources only by the governments or international institutions; • They agree that the institutions should be payed by theirs services but with a previous negociation.

  19. GIEFA Building alliances for an America free of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD)

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