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Most weekends, Team Bird Flu can be found competing in a friendship soccer match in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The team was originally established in 2007 as Team Lawyer 7, but became Team Bird Flu in May 2012 to promote awareness of Avian Influenza and prevention measures to the public. USAID, through the FHI 360 Cambodia Office, funded new team uniforms featuring the "Super Chicken" logo designed under the previous AI-BCC Project and revived for MID-BCC's current work. More>>
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) signed a memorandum of cooperation on June 6, 2012 to help reduce the risk of emerging pandemic disease threats in the Mekong region of Southeast Asia.
Under the memorandum, AusAID is providing Aus$6 mil. to MID-BCC's sister project, USAID's PREVENT project. The memorandum reflects USAID FORWARD, a new reform effort which includes a greater emphasis on collaboration and partnership with bilateral donors, multilateral, and international organizations to increase synergies and avoid duplication.
See the full release here.
USAID's MID-BCC's application of mobile phone SMS technology for data collection is being conducted at cross border locations in Mukdahan, Thailand and Savannakhett, Lao PDR.
This innovative approach to data collection has been highlighted on USAID - Thailand webpage. MID-BCC's research technical lead, Kanokwan (Pook) Suwannarong, is shown explaining the process in the image. Full story is available here.
Dee Bennett, MID-BCC Project Director, and Trudy Farnum, Operations Manager, visited the risk communication training for animal and human health district and provincial providers in Battambang Province held on 17-19 July.
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Cecile Lantican, MID-BCC Country Coordinator Lao PDR, traveled to Phnom Penh, Cambodia to train eight members of the national rapid response team on risk communication June 20-21.
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Cecile Lantican, MID-BCC Country Coordinator Lao PDR, traveled to Phnom Penh, Cambodia to train eight members of the national rapid response team on risk communication June 20-21.
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Cecile Lantican, Ph.D., MID-BCC Country Coordinator Lao PDR, supported a teacher training on the Lao government's Guidelines on Prevention of Infectious Diseases in School in Luang Prabang May 21-23.
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