Global FMD Control Strategy, socio-economic rationale and implementation costs
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The initial cost estimate of the FAO/OIE global foot and mouth disease control strategy E. Fukase, F. Le Gall & W. Martin The World Bank, MC5-515, 1818 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20433, United States of America Correspondence: EFukase@gc.cuny.edu This paper is a product of close co-operation between the World Bank (WB) Team and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Global Framework of Transboundary Animal Diseases (GF-TADs) Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) Working Group. The longer version of the paper (3) is available as a supporting document of the global strategy (2). The paper relies heavily on discussions with and data provided by the members of GF-TADs FMD Working Group consulted between November 2011 and May 2012. We are deeply grateful to Joseph Domenech (OIE) and Peter DeLeeuw (FAO) for overall guidance and inputs, including during our meetings at OIE Headquarters in Paris on 21–22 November 2011 and at FAO Headquarters in Rome on 19–21 December 2011, and to Giancarlo Ferrari (FAO), Samia Metwally (FAO), Nadège Leboucq (OIE) and Bernardo Todeschini (OIE) for generously sharing their time, data and expertise. We also would like to thank Brian Bedard (WB), Cyril Gay (United States Department of Agriculture [USDA]), Alex Donaldson (FAO/OIE consultant), Stephane Forman (WB), Mimako Kobayashi (WB), Caroline Planté (WB), Jonathan Rushton of Royal Veterinary College, University of London and Juergen Voegele (WB) for very useful inputs, comments and discussions.
Summary This paper provides initial cost estimates for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) global foot and mouth disease (FMD) control strategy for the first five years of the programme. The cost at the country level is estimated, taking account of a set of activities typically undertaken along the progressive control pathway (PCP), which is a tool for FMD-endemic countries to increase progressively their levels of FMD control. The country-level cost is estimated to be about USD 762 million (93%), of which a large portion is vaccination costs. The cost at the regional level is estimated to be about USD 47 million (6%), with a high proportion of the cost going to laboratory and epidemiology activities clustered around the seven FMD ‘regional virus pools’. The cost of the strategy at the global level is estimated to be about USD 11 million (1%). About half of the cost at the regional level directly benefits countries through training, laboratory support and expert support missions, and approximately one-third of the cost at the global level benefits regions and countries directly in a similar way. Keywords Costs – FAO/OIE Global FMD disease control strategy – Global strategy – Progressive Control Pathway – Veterinary Services – World Organisation for Animal Health.
Introduction Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is a highly contagious and economically devastating livestock disease worldwide. FMD is endemic in many low-income countries and an FMD outbreak causes devastating impacts on farmers with adverse effects on livestock assets, production income and consumption. FMD may spread to FMD-free countries, as seen with outbreaks in the United Kingdom (UK) (2001), Japan (2010) and the Republic of Korea (2010), costing these countries billions of dollars. The control of FMD is therefore a global public good. The objective of this paper is to prepare an initial cost estimate for the first component of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) global FMD control strategy for of (hereafter the global strategy) for the first five years at country, regional and global levels. The global strategy is a 15-year programme with three components: i) improving global FMD control; ii) strengthening Veterinary Services (VS); and iii) improving the prevention and control of other major diseases of livestock (2). As FMD control is linked to the overall development of VS, and improved VS and FMD control are expected to have spill-over effects on the control of other major animal diseases, countries may use FMD control as an entry
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