The Cambodian government has signed an agreement with a group of donors for three grants totaling 11 million U.S. dollars for the kingdom to carry out national plan to contain bird flu, said a press release here on Thursday.
The grants will support the Avian and Human Influenza Control and Preparedness Emergency Project (AHICPEP) of Cambodia, said the release from the World Bank's resident office.
The three-year project will complement Cambodia's Comprehensive Avian and Human Influenza (AHI) National Plan, which aimed at minimizing the threats from avian and human influenza and preparing the country's health systems to deal with any possible outbreak, it said.
The government is now focused on the development of an integrated AHI control and human pandemic preparedness and response plan, and is working closely with the international community to build its capacity for disease surveillance, outbreak investigation, and emergency response, Nhim Vanda, vice president of the National Committee for Disaster Management, was quoted in press release as saying.
The project consists of three components: to strengthen animal health systems; to improve human health systems; and to strengthen the inter-ministerial cooperation for pandemic preparedness, it said.
AHICPEP aims to help the government contain the spread of the H5N1 virus, reduce livelihood losses among commercial and backyard poultry growers, limit damage to the poultry industry, diminish the viral load in the environment, and prevent or limit human morbidity as well as mortality.
Source:Xinhua
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