De Nardi Marco, Léger Anaïs, Stepanyan Tatul, Khachatryan Bagrat, Karibayev Talgat, Sytnik Igor, Tyulegenov Samat, Akhmetova Assel, Nychyk Serhiy, Sytiuk Mykola, Nevolko Oleg, Datsenko Roman, Chaligava Tengiz, Avaliani Lasha, Parkadze Otar, Ninidze Lena, Kartskhia Natia, Napetvaridze Tsira, Asanishvili Zviad, Khelaia Demna, Menteshashvili Ioseb, Zadayan Meruzhan, Niazyan Lyudmila, Mykhaylovska Nataliya, Brooks Bradford Raymond, Zhumabayeva Gulnara, Satabayeva Saltanat, Metreveli Magda, Gallagher Theresa, Obiso Richard
SAFOSO, Liebefeld, Switzerland.
Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Department, Ministry of Agriculture, Yerevan, Armenia.
Front Vet Sci. 2017 Oct 26;4:164. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2017.00164. eCollection 2017.
A training and outreach program to increase public awareness of African swine fever (ASF) was implemented by Defense Threat Reduction Agency and the Ministries of Agriculture in Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. The implementing agency was the company SAFOSO (Switzerland). Integration of this regional effort was administered by subject matter experts for each country. The main teaching effort of this project was to develop a comprehensive regional public outreach campaign through a network of expertise and knowledge for the control and prevention of ASF in four neighboring countries that experience similar issues with this disease. Gaps in disease knowledge, legislation, and outbreak preparedness in each country were all addressed. Because ASF is a pathogen with bioterrorism potential and of great veterinary health importance that is responsible for major economic instability, the project team developed public outreach programs to train veterinarians in the partner countries to accurately and rapidly identify ASF activity and report it to international veterinary health agencies. The project implementers facilitated four regional meetings to develop this outreach program, which was later disseminated in each partner country. Partner country participants were trained as trainers to implement the outreach program in their respective countries. In this paper, we describe the development, execution, and evaluation of the ASF training and outreach program that reached more than 13,000 veterinarians, farmers, and hunters in the partner countries. Additionally, more than 120,000 booklets, flyers, leaflets, guidelines, and posters were distributed during the outreach campaign. Pre- and post-ASF knowledge exams were developed. The overall success of the project was demonstrated in that the principles of developing and conducting a public outreach program were established, and these foundational teachings can be applied within a single country or expanded regionally to disseminate disease information across borders; overall, this method can be modified to raise awareness about many other diseases.
美国国防威胁降低局与亚美尼亚、格鲁吉亚、哈萨克斯坦和乌克兰的农业部共同实施了一项提高公众对非洲猪瘟（ASF）认识的培训与推广计划。执行机构是瑞士的SAFOSO公司。每个国家的主题专家负责管理这一区域工作的整合。该项目的主要教学工作是通过一个专业知识网络，为四个面临类似非洲猪瘟问题的邻国制定一项全面的区域公众推广活动，以控制和预防非洲猪瘟。每个国家在疾病知识、立法和疫情防范方面的差距都得到了处理。由于非洲猪瘟是一种具有生物恐怖主义潜力且对兽医健康至关重要的病原体，会导致重大经济不稳定，项目团队制定了公众推广计划，培训伙伴国家的兽医准确、快速地识别非洲猪瘟活动并向国际兽医卫生机构报告。项目实施者促成了四次区域会议来制定这一推广计划，该计划随后在每个伙伴国家传播。伙伴国家的参与者被培训成为培训师，以便在各自国家实施推广计划。在本文中，我们描述了非洲猪瘟培训与推广计划的制定、执行和评估情况，该计划覆盖了伙伴国家的13000多名兽医、农民和猎人。此外，在推广活动期间分发了超过12万份手册、传单、指南和海报。还开发了非洲猪瘟知识前后测考试。该项目的总体成功体现在确立了制定和开展公众推广计划的原则，这些基础教学内容可在单个国家内应用，或在区域内扩展以跨境传播疾病信息；总体而言，这种方法可以修改，以提高对许多其他疾病的认识。
