Vietnam's
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Thursday launched the National
Coordinated Action Programme on Avian Influenza, Pandemics Preparedness and
Emerging Infectious Diseases (AIPED) for the 2011-2015 period.
The programme will focus on improving and
enhancing the capacity to monitor and respond to infectious diseases, and to
diagnose them in labs. It will also focus on improving treatment and
preparedness, and expanding citizen awareness through the mass media to control
disease outbreaks and recurrence.
It is also aimed at timely discovery and
response to new human and animal diseases and preparedness for any epidemics
that affect humans.
The Partnership Conference on Avian and Human
Pandemic Influenza was also held to call for more support from the
international community to help Vietnam deal with the issue. Vietnam would
stand side by side with the international community in building and
implementing activities at international, regional and national levels, to face
the risk of dangerous new epidemics on humans which are rooted on the avian flu
H5N1 virus, said Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Dao Xuan
Hoc.
Hardest
hit
Vietnam was among the countries hardest hit by
the avian flu, but with close coordination from the international community the
country had achieved encouraging results in preventing the disease over the
past eight years, he said.
To date, Vietnam had been able to control the
circulation of the avian flu virus and reduce the number of infections in
humans. However, the risk remained high so the conference was calling for
further support from domestic and foreign partners to implement the AIPED and
discussing orientations and challenges facing the country in responding to the
diseases in the coming time, Hoc added.
Chief representative of the United Nations’
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Vietnam Yuriko Shoji said AIPED was
set up to provide a comprehensive route and map out important milestones to
maintain achievements that had already been made and to continue avian flu
prevention and control activities as well as risks of other animal-to-human
epidemics.
She affirmed the necessity to continue
responding to avian flu challenges and possible epidemics, and apply lessons
from the fight against H5N1 and H1N1 to other highly infected diseases on the
basis of the interaction between animals, humans and the environment.
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