Iqbal Meesha, Fatmi Zafar, Khan Mumtaz Ali
Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Department of Epidemiology and Disease, National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad, Pakistan.
J Pak Med Assoc. 2020 Sep;70(9):1625-1626. doi: 10.5455/JPMA.24139.
Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease; endemic but neglected in the South Asian countries including Pakistan. It causes economic loss to the livestock sector and leads to systemic infection in humans. Brucellosis was neglected in Pakistan since long. According to the Staged Tool for the Elimination of Brucellosis (STEB), Pakistan carries a grim landscape of the disease with no structured control activities. This article describes the five-year national brucellosis control strategic plan (2018-2023) formulated by the government of Pakistan using the one-health approach for the prevention and control of disease across the country. The plan incorporates components of surveillance, research, diagnostic capacity, awareness and vaccination using a multi-disciplinary approach.
布鲁氏菌病是一种人畜共患病;在包括巴基斯坦在内的南亚国家呈地方性流行但被忽视。它给畜牧业造成经济损失,并导致人类全身性感染。长期以来,布鲁氏菌病在巴基斯坦一直被忽视。根据消除布鲁氏菌病分阶段工具(STEB),巴基斯坦该病形势严峻,没有系统性的防控活动。本文介绍了巴基斯坦政府采用“同一健康”方法制定的为期五年的全国布鲁氏菌病防控战略计划(2018 - 2023年),以在全国预防和控制该疾病。该计划采用多学科方法,纳入了监测、研究、诊断能力、宣传和疫苗接种等组成部分。