APHIS/VS

$32K USD

Funder	Department of Agriculture
Recipient Organization	U.S. Government - Department of Agriculture
Country	Haiti
Start Date	Nov 20, 2012
End Date	Oct 06, 2016
Duration	1,416 days
Number of Grantees	2
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	US Foreign Aid
Grant ID	`250816-85`

Grant Description

Activity 1 : Subject matter experts from APHIS-VS participated at the following meetings related to Swine Diseases and Classical Swine Fever (the meetings were held in Port au Prince, Haiti): 1) CSF-GFTAD-FAO meeting (1 day); 2) Swine Diseases Working Group Meeting of the CaribVET (2 days) and; 3) CSF Senior Review Meetings (2 days).

Additionally, a VS subject matter expert traveled to the field to review CSF field operations (vaccination, surveillance) in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

VS subject matter expert also assisted in the review of the status of the APHIS special project for the installation of RT PCR diagnostics at the National Veterinary Laboratories in Haiti and DR.

Budget; Activity 2 : Since 2008, NVSL/FADDL, has been assisting the Classical Swine Fever (CSF) eradication program in Hispaniola (Haiti and DR) by providing technical advice and improving the diagnostic capacity of the National Veterinary Laboratories (NVL) of both countries.

Since the first observation of Teschen disease (TD) in Haiti in February of 2009, APHIS-VS and APHIS-IS, have been actively inv