STOP AI (Stamping out Pandemic and Avian Influenza)
Project Date: 2007–2010
Stamping Out Pandemic and Avian Influenza (STOP AI) is working to mitigate the economic hardship caused by avian influenza and prevent animal-to-human and further human-to-human infection of the disease. The goal of STOP AI is to prevent the infection of the virus responsible for the avian influenza, H5N1, to humans. The project will assists countries to prevent the spread of pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), prepare for and respond to outbreaks, and minimize the risk of reinfection among poultry during the recovery phase after the initial outbreak.
MSH, as the principal subcontractor to Development Alternatives Inc., is responsible for strengthening preparedness and planning to detect and contain HPAI outbreaks in both poultry and humans, improving containment measures in human populations, decreasing high-risk behaviors associated with animal-to-animal transmission, and limiting the exposure of health workers to the H5N1 virus. MSH’s partnership with four regional organizations—the University of Dakar in Senegal, the University of Rwanda School of Public Health, Aga Khan University in Pakistan, and Primex in the Philippines—ensures local capacity-building and sustainability control in the prevention of avian influenza.
MSH, as the principal subcontractor to Development Alternatives Inc., is responsible for strengthening preparedness and planning to detect and contain HPAI outbreaks in both poultry and humans, improving containment measures in human populations, decreasing high-risk behaviors associated with animal-to-animal transmission, and limiting the exposure of health workers to the H5N1 virus. MSH’s partnership with four regional organizations—the University of Dakar in Senegal, the University of Rwanda School of Public Health, Aga Khan University in Pakistan, and Primex in the Philippines—ensures local capacity-building and sustainability control in the prevention of avian influenza.