Monday, 22 July 1996
| Chairman: | Gavin Thomson | |
| 09:15 | Opening by Assistant Director-General, FAO Agriculture Department | |
| 09:30 | Keynote address Morbilliviruses into the 21st Century | Tom Barrett |
| Session 1 | The distribution and nature of rinderpest | |
| Session Chairman: Alex Donaldson | ||
| 10:30 | Current Global Status of Rinderpest | Mark Rweyemamu |
| 10:40 | Current Status of Rinderpest in Africa | Walter Masiga |
| 10:50 | Current Status of Rinderpest in India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal & Sri Lanka | K. Rajan |
| 11:00 | Current Status of Rinderpest in Pakistan and Afghanistan | Rafaqat Raja |
| 11:10 | Current Status of Rinderpest in the Near East and Central Asia | Gholam Ali Kiani |
| 11:20 | Epidemiological and clinical features of rinderpest in the 1990's | Paul Rossiter |
| 11:30 | Discussion | |
| Session 2 | Diagnosis and surveillance | |
| Session Chairman: William Taylor | ||
| 14:00 | Laboratory Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis of Rinderpest | |
| - the role of the Reference Laboratories | John Anderson | |
| 14:10 | Diagnostic technology support to GREP by the
FAO/IAEA Division | Martyn Jeggo |
| 14:20 | Training field veterinarians in recognition of tropical epidemic diseases | Gavin Thomson |
| 14:30 | Discussion | |
| Session 3 | Communications and GREP | |
| Session Chairman: Masiga | ||
| 15:40 | Communication techniques in support of GREP | Philippe Van der Stichele |
| 16:00 | The role of multimedia technology in EMPRES and GREP | Julian Hilton |
| 16:30 | Discussion and Recommendations | |
| Tuesday, 23 July 1996 | ||
| Session 4 | Technical strategies for GREP | |
| Session Chairman: Alain Provost and Roger Morris | ||
| 08: 40 | The World Without Rinderpest - the socio-economic justification | Andrew James |
| 09: 00 | The World Without Rinderpest - Outreach to the inaccessible areas | Jeffrey Mariner |
| 09:20 | The World Without Rinderpest - Outreach to the inaccessible areas. | |
| The case for a community-based approach with reference to Southern Sudan | Tim Leyland Mark Rweyemamu | |
| 09:40 | The World Without Rinderpest - the technical Strategy | |
| 10:00 | Discussion | |
| 11:00 | The World Without Poliomyelitis - The WHO surveillance programme | Maureen Birmingham |
| 11:20 | The World Without Rinderpest - Contingency planning and emergency preparedness | Gareth Davies |
| 11:50 | The World Without Rinderpest - Sustainable Veterinary Structures | Yves Cheneau |
| 12:10 | Discussion | |
| 14:00 | The World Without Rinderpest - OIE Standards for Epidemiological Surveillance Systems for Rinderpest | Alain Provost |
| 14:15 | The World Without Rinderpest - Global Early Warning against rinderpest and other major epidemics | William Geering |
| 14:30 | The World Without Rinderpest - Global Early Reaction against rinderpest and other major epidemics | Peter Roeder |
| 14:45 | Discussion | |
| 15:45 | Recommendations - GREP Strategy | |
| Wednesday, 24 July 1996 | ||
| Session 5 | Financing | |
| Session Chairman: Yves Cheneau | ||
| 09:00 | Financing the eradication of rinderpest and other major epidemic diseases - the EU strategy and experience in Africa | Michael Dale |
| 09:15 | Financing the eradication of rinderpest and other major epidemic diseases - the EU strategy and experience in Asia | Alain Vandersmissen |
| 09:30 | IFAD experience of a multi-donor initiative for financing the eradication of the NWSW and the follow-up | Ahmed Sidahmed |
| 09:45 | Discussion | |
| Chairman: Gavin Thomson | ||
| 11:00 | Recommendations of the Meeting | |
| 12:00 | Closure by Dr T. Fujita, Director, Animal Production and Health Division | |
