 Okay, good morning to Paris. Good afternoon for people from our region and eventually as people from different places. I saw in the list a few people joining. First of all, I'm very glad to be the talk at this webinar, OIE. Thank you, Law and OIE Colleague, for bringing Ingrid in this discussion. And I have to state a straight forward that actually, Ingrid is only one of the partners in Vietnam working on various issues of ASF, including communication. So, in the next 15 minutes, I will show the quality effort of different partners in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia addressing risk communication related to ASF. I will talk a bit about ASF situation in this region, but I think that I will speak it quickly because I will call it from Paris, just mention it. But, you know, focusing mainly on activity done in ASF risk communication and growing from that sum of selection and deflection and conclusion. You see, this actually is the update of ASF situation in Asia by, you know, a few days ago by FAO. OIE, I already saw some difference in number between the number given by our colleagues from OIE and the number we have from here, for example, in Vietnam. Actually, we had the first case in February this year and until today, most of the provinces, the province reported our break and already about 3.7, 3.8 million people died because of ASF. Let me skip this slide, but you can see that it started in China and afterwards, you know, we have Vietnam, Cambodia and recently Laos found it. Actually, and here, for the case of Vietnam, you can see, actually, the increase of the speed of having an outbreak of ASF. As I said before, 3.8 million people already have been re-cued in response to this outbreak in different province. When you look at this situation, you see the Southeast Asia in general and in particular in Vietnam, we share a few characteristics leading to the high risk factors for ASF. For example, in particular, for Vietnam, we have long borders with different countries and that facilitates a lot of movement of people and animals for that. A lot of international travels to Vietnam with many people carrying various products here and there, but more importantly, our food production system is very much dominated by the small hunders with various levels of biosecurity, but in particular, basically with very low biosecurity for small hunders. And also, you see, with the habit of having a lot of pork in our diet, pork represents 50% of our diet, so that is an important source of protein of animal source food. And also, you know, because even though it's not so easy, the risk communication sometimes, you know, goes the way that people might stop eating pork when they heard about African soy fever. In response to this situation, actually the government of Vietnam have actually introduced many actions to prevent and control this African soy fever problem. For example, you know, the government put in place various action plans and so different directives and guidance from the military of the country and the development and also other ministries. And in particular, African soy fever goes up to the levels and a lot of attention because the party of Vietnam has also issued a directive to address this African soy fever. In the context of Vietnam, you know, if the party issue directly means that it shows a very high level importance, because it's not about the action of the military of the country and the development animal. It is also the action and the engagement of other sectors, other ministries, other components of our society to address this African soy fever. The most updated policy development actually was the decision issued on 27 June by our prime minister on the mechanisms, policies and amended compensation schemes in prevention and control African soy fever. So basically, we see a few areas of intervention and a controlling African soy fever by looking on the movement control picks in the country, threatening the biosecurity application. And as I said before, for the small under production system, it is more challenging because they have low level of biosecurity. The commercial farm and large farm have much better biosecurity level. That's why until now most of the outbreak happened for the small under, few outbreaks started being observed in large farm. A lot of this communication to raise the public awareness has been implemented and also the compensation schemes for farmers, of course the animal health workers work a lot to identify outbreak certified to put it on the compensation schemes. But of course the payment of compensation is the limited, various depending on the availability of farm, a different province in Vietnam. Okay, so there's a little bit of context. Now moving to this action, link to the risk communication for ASF, what did we do? It's not about in real alone, but also all the partners. So you see that we contacted our colleagues from OIE who connected us to people from FAO in the country, but also Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Government together with National Agriculture Extension Centre in Vietnam who work on the translation of some of the OIE materials for ASF by getting a few key actors of big value trade in Vietnam. So you see that we coordinated very nicely with different partners and we put the things in Vietnamese. It was approved by various levels of the Ministry, but also from OIE. We put different logos to show the partnership and we put these materials online on Facebook and various websites in Vietnam, in particular the Facebook of in-rate in Vietnam. So I know that in our people, our colleagues from Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development from Extension Centre and our organization have used also these materials to print out, to distribute and also to post online in the context of Vietnam. So we focus here for example, you have here management of animal health people for the farmers, for the biosecurity levels, different principles of biosecurity. Unfortunately, I don't have all the data on the distribution, but for example, we put out the distribution on the Facebook, so we have about 10 million rich, 10,000 rich, 1,000 English and 75 only from the website of in-rate. So that's actually what we can count. You remember that a few months after Cambodia has this outbreak of ASF in the province of Vietnam in the South and actually we communicated with people from there, but really this action was taken up quickly by a colleague from Zidaf, a General Director of Animal Health and Production under the Ministry of Agriculture of Cambodia and our colleague from FAO. So I mean Cambodian partners, they went very fast, they translated the document in Khmer and actively distributed it in variant channels. So I talked with our colleagues from Cambodia and Anastasia Zidaf who work with different provincial office of animal health and production to weave this document to farmers and other state funders linked to the population, but also they organized different training for people and for animal health and they could also invest the private sector to support the print document like CP and other companies. The latest development of that is in fact yesterday, 31st of July, Prime Minister Cambodia has signed an advice document on prevention and control of ASF and also emphasize on the important product in and out of Cambodia. So I think that is actually a nicely addressed situation. Also for Laos, Laos is more recent for ASF, but people in Laos from a military of agriculture and forestry together with colleague from SDC, Laos Uplan Rural Advisory Services and our communication staff of Inri based in Laos have worked on the translation and materials have been sent to every province in Laos and disseminated through provincial offices. So as the latest news I got from this morning more than 3,500 dollars from the website Laos 44.org. So but I think that this document would be important also to be printed and distributed with some of the support from different organizations hopefully. So that is about working on the document of OIE. From research for the view we have been engaged in talking with different mayors on Africans. So I feel for example here we talked with ASEAN today with Reuters, Diplomat and other local newspapers to show our view from research and communication on how to address Africans' five-figure in particular in favor of small hunters in different countries. So actually it's not about research alone but really spreading the research news with the media is on very important channel because it can reach out a lot of people in this crisis of African swipe fever. Scientists have been also engaged in different conference and meeting to talk about African swipe fever from the regional level. In my remembers we had a big international conference called ESTV in Chiang Mai in November 2018 where FAO and OIE I think put together a very important session on African swipe fever attracting a lot of attention of that conference last year. More recently in raise together with the University of Sydney organized a regional workshop on quick research focusing on small hunters and there we have a final discussion and one session on animal health and we talked a lot about African swipe fever more from research and also potential on intervention. We had also African swipe fever international conference organized by our colleague from Vietnam National University of Aragantra in April 2019 where we sent our colleague from Nairobi, Kenya, to talk about African swipe fever. So don't forget that African swipe fever was tested and misguided in Africa in Kenya. So actually we have headquartered there and we have been conducting research on African swipe fever for the last 30 years and also many conference organized by local organization in Vietnam also in Laos in Cambodia presenting African swipe fever. So it's very good for communication basically making people understand the importance of such things and how to address in that context. I would end this communication part by saying that you see African swipe fever is new to Asia but it has been there for many years with Africa. So our institute has been working there for long and coming up with you know quite a substantial evidence on transmission of control on prevention and here for example one of the communication material we have developed for the African context based on the evidence you know guiding people how to translate their biosecurity but how to slap the pigs when they are infected and in the safe way and then how to how to school pigs also when they are infected in African context. So I don't go into detail but you know we have a little bit more experience in Africa because of African swipe fever history in that continent. From a policy making point of view for the case of Vietnam and Cambodia as far as I know our minister and vice minister have very much to be actively engaged in communicating this African swipe fever risk to different stakeholders. You can see here in the photo of the minister of agricultural development of Vietnam on the top and below the vice minister in charge of this crisis ASF. So I think the message from the ministries has been very clear that you know we mobilise effort to fight African swipe fever topping a lot with this media. However there are also difficulties in communicating with people because my nature African swipe fever is not a zoonotic disease so yeah I mean this doesn't affect people but you know some people still misunderstand or by some reason of behaviour practice they stop hitting bog and that is not good for the context of food security and nutrition and implication for the big sectors at the moment. So I think that's the communication need also to be clear and strategic in the way to target audience and make them really royally understand the nature of the disease. Another concern recently in Vietnam as far as we observe is actually the information on the vaccine development. Our colleague from Hanoi Vietnam National University of America has made a great progress in research on African swipe fever vaccines because they obtain a quite good result in the field testing and actually some of the but the vaccine is not available you know I mean this is very clear our minister also said very clearly that you know this is very good news but having the vaccines developed and having the vaccine is a thing for farmer to use it's not there yet it might be seen a long way to go but some of the media didn't reflect this message in the correct way and they run a few papers and you know Vietnam successful people of African swipe fever and actually some of the work need to be improved in terms of education of media people to really correctly communicate the result of some of its research. I think that you know the situation is similar to China because you know China researcher informed a few months ago on the success of progress of ASF vaccines development but officially the vaccine is not available both for Vietnam and China until today. Okay let me wrap up for for for this I think that's the first point you can say that it's actually it's very clear that African swipe fever has caused important loss for small and medium steel sectors, big production affecting starting affecting food security and in of course some social issue in the country that I mentioned from the beginning even our party issues the directive and actually involved many sectors and people working on that. The government in different countries put serious action on African swipe fever rapidly but the communication on African swipe fever is sometimes slow and lack of communication materials at local level so various partners have been working to improve that. Now it's much better you remember that from the beginning some of the private sectors produce themselves the material communication materials to distribute to farmers and now more people work on on that. I mentioned before that there are some local media issues making public confused about zoonotic issue, zoonotic character of disease but also the vaccine development and that need to be improved. Now generally we appreciate very much media effort because that goes very fast and and and now it may help people to understand the situation but some areas of improvement need to be done. Translation of African swipe fever materials and online distribution is reaching audience quickly. There has not been a lot of adaptation and pilot to the local context a little bit but I think that we are not there yet so I think that you know maybe would be good to have a second generation of contextualized and country specific materials like the OIE but also revised a bit based on the context that we are having. In different communications platform it's important for different partners in particular researcher for interview conference have been spreading the news of African swipe fever. I think that it's also important for different organization to develop a different top in boys and message for influencers and experts important in order to mitigate sensational news you know when it goes from important people it goes better in terms of communication and finally the risk communication is not in the hand of anyone in our society so that's why effort of working closely with the government, with industry, with media to achieve good communication activities is key in risk communication. So that's actually our experience from the region and I would like to thank the contribution of many colleagues in which I prepare this talk and also our colleagues from Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development from Vernure from FAO and some of these work have been supported by Asia Children's Center International Agriculture Research, our CJA Livestock Research Program and Agriculture for Nutrition and Health and with that I end my talk here and I thank you very much for your attention.