WOAH’s mission is to help veterinary services fight animal diseases, assisting in coordination and sharing of expertise. Faced with continuing outbreaks of African Swine Fever slowly spreading in the European continent since 2007, WOAH Members have developed outstanding expertise in managing disease outbreaks in the field, organizing appropriate surveillance in domestic pigs and wild boars, and in communicating with the many stakeholders involved in prevention, surveillance, and outbreak control.
At regional level, the Standing group of experts of the GF-TADs (Global Framework for the progressive control of Transboundary Animal Diseases) [link to the global GF-TADs page] is entrusted with the coordination of activities by FAO and WOAH in partnership with other regional organisations, such as the EU. WOAH supports this framework as a Secretariat, and hosts related material on its website.
To help countries benefit from each other’s experience, showcase best practices, and encourage ongoing innovation through exchanges of ideas, WOAH in Europe first created an e-depository in 2019. This tool is meant for countries, and all ASF-related awareness material is welcome to be included in it.
We thus invite countries to share awareness material, and also any other material they think might be relevant, with the secretariat at the following address: rr-europe@woah.org
In this e-depository, we have made efforts to ensure information provided by WOAH is accurate; however, since the objective is also to share material provided by countries, please keep in mind that it is provided for information, and that WOAH cannot be held responsible for damages that may occur when using this material in real life situations.
In addition, the material provided has been kindly shared by veterinary services, institutes, and professional unions for their own national public, and may be subject to copyright. It is provided on this website for information purposes, and we invite any users to contact the initial publishers if they wish to use the material directly.
The WOAH regional representation for Europe is happy to modify or delete any material by request of the initial publishers.
