Farming in tsetse Controlled areas Regional Component..PDF

The European Commission have been involved in supporting tsetse and trypanosomiasis control inEast Africa since 1987 when Phase I of the EC funded human sleeping sickness control programme insouth east Uganda commenced. The human sleeping sickness epidemic of the 1980s in Ugandaspread into Kenya in 1987 and reached a peak there in 1990. This led to the Organisation of AfricanUnity establishing a project to integrate activities on either side of the Kenya-Uganda border. The EChas now agreed to fund a programme for the eastern Africa region and financing agreements havebeen signed between the Commission and the governments of Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia. In time itis anticipated that other countries within the region will join the programme (Tanzania, Burundi,Rwanda). Each country programme has a different emphasis and Technical Assistants will be recruitedseparately for each country. In addition a Regional Co-ordination Unit will be established within theOAU Inter African Bureau for Animal Resources (IBAR) office in Nairobi and a Technical Assistantwill be recruited for this Co-ordination Unit.