The Second Meeting of the FAO/OIE/OAU/IAEA Consultative Group on Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP) was held at FAO headquarters in Rome from 24 to 26 October 2000. Participants from various African countries, from research institutions and FAO partner organizations attended. The theme of the meeting was "Reviving progressive control of CBPP in Africa".
The group concluded that in the near future it was possible only to envisage enhancing the existing systems of CBPP control to suppress the incidence of disease in the endemic maintenance zones and strengthen the protection of free areas. In the longer term, it would be desirable to work towards achieving progressively more effective control, thereby reducing the extent of endemic maintenance areas and the risk of CBPP movement to peripheral areas. Total eradication should be the eventual goal. This would require veterinary services and contagious disease control to be accorded higher priority by governments than it has at present and the exploration of funding mechanisms which would undoubtedly differ from country to country. This matter would need to be brought to the attention of national Ministries of Agriculture at the highest level in appropriate regional fora and at national level through PACE national activities.