Support, Training and Capacity Building for Infectious Disease

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Support, Training and Capacity Building for Infectious Disease: This is a project to enhance the surveillance, epidemiological investigation and laboratory diagnostic capabilities in countries in S.E. Asia, Africa and other regions of the world that are at risk for an avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak or where such an outbreak has already occurred. Such enhancements will help establish an early warning system that could prevent and contain the spread of an avian influenza pandemic to the United States. The purposes of the program are to Enhance cooperation between the HHS and RIIP institutes to support and increase influenza outbreak-investigation, surveillance, and training capacity in Southeast Asia; Enhance laboratory capacities for H5N1 diagnosis in the Cambodian Ministry of Health's Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) surveillance program Enhance and expand IPC's capacity to conduct human and animal surveillance activities in Cambodia and Laos, Enhance and expand the training capacity for H5N1 avian influenza surveillance and epidemiology within the RIIP network in Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam, as well as provide and expand biosafety and biosecurity training for BSL-3 facilities in this region;Enhance communications and interoperable connectivity among the three RIIP-affiliated laboratories in Vietnam; Enhance security at the BSL-3 laboratory suite and related physical plant for Institut Pasteur--Cambodia; and Enhance laboratory capacities in African countries that are at risk for an H5N1 outbreak or where there has already been an H5N1 outbreak in order to strengthen early detection and diagnosis of influenzas in animals and humans. easurable outcomes of the program will be in alignment with the President's National Strategy and the principles of the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza, and one (or more) of the following performance goal(s) for the agency pursuant to the President's initiative on pandemic influenza preparedness: To detect animal and human outbreaks before they spread around the world;To take immediate steps to ensure early warning of an avian flu outbreak among animals or humans in affected regions; and To strengthen a new international partnership on avian influenza.