5th WOAH Regional Workshop on Swine Disease Control

The 5th WOAH Regional Workshop on Swine Disease Control in Asia and the Pacific

In 2014, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) Regional Representation for Asia and the Pacific (RRAP) in collaboration with FAO organised regional workshops on swine disease prevention and control, with focuses on sharing swine disease control strategies, experiences in the field and identification of regional priorities and gaps. The workshop identified the lack of well-trained technical staff as the main constraint on swine disease prevention and control and suggested that WOAH Reference Centres continue their involvement and support of regional capacity-building activities, especially on laboratory diagnosis and disease control measures.

As part of the action response to improve capacity building on swine disease control in the Asian Pacific region, WOAH RRAP in collaboration with WOAH Reference Laboratories (RLs) for PRRS, China Animal Disease Control Center (CADC), has organised a series of workshops to regional Members since 2015.

As a follow-up to the previous workshop and noting the PRRS is an endemic disease causing important economic losses to the pig industry in Asia, the WOAH RRAP in collaboration with WOAH RL for PRRS will organise the “Fifth Regional Workshop on Swine Disease Control in Asia and the Pacific”.