Following meetings in Nairobi (2012) and Kigali (2014), the meeting in Entebbe, Uganda between 3rd-5th July 2018 was the third FMD-PCP roadmap meeting for the Eastern African region. A total of 44 participants including OIE Delegates and their FMD country focal points were drawn from 11 countries including Burundi, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.

Regional and international experts from Regional Economic Communities, i.e. the East African Community (EAC) and the InterGovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) and the Pan-African Veterinary Vaccines Centre (AU-PANVAC) of the African Union; the OIE FMD Reference Centres, i.e. the Botswana Veterinary Institute(BVI) and the FMD World Reference Laboratory at the Pirbright Institute, Deloitte, the European Commission for the Control of Foot-an-Mouth Disease (EuFMD), FAO, and OIE. Several producers of Foot-and-mouth disease vaccines were also represented.

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