From Agence France-Presse, September 22, 2007: "African nations are concerned that a slump in funding from the international community could hamper their efforts to combat bird flu on the continent, officials said."

The GLCRSP Avian Flu School project (AFS) has developed an international train-the-trainer course covering the essential skills for prevention and detection of and response to an H5N1 HPAI outbreak. The AFS project has just completed international, national, regional, district, and village level roll-outs of the program in Eastern and Western Africa.