Action Plan National Program 103 Animal Health 2022-2027.

The Action Plan National Program 103 Animal Health 2022-2027 is a national sectoral plan of the United States of America. Its main objective is to deliver scientific information and tools to detect, control, and eradicate animal diseases that impact agriculture and public health.
The Plan aims to eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition. To this end, it sets out measures concerning enhanced United States and global food security through solutions to problems incurred by domestic and transboundary animal diseases of livestock and poultry; to provide scientific information to producers and action and regulatory agencies so they can establish science-based on-farm practices that will maximise “biosecurity” to protect farms from naturally or intentionally introduced pathogens that threaten food security, farm productivity, and the trade and export of agricultural products; and to prevent and treat production-related diseases in order to ensure an economically viable and safe food supply.
In order to increase the resilience of livelihoods to disasters, the Plan aims to protect and ensure the safety of the Nation’s agriculture and food supply through improved disease detection, prevention, and control; control and eradicate foreign animal diseases; predict and prevent emerging diseases; mitigate the consequences of zoonotic bacterial diseases; mitigate respiratory bacterial diseases of livestock species; diagnose and mitigate strategies for production related bacterial diseases; prevent respiratory viral diseases of livestock and poultry; enhance the control of viral diseases in intensive production systems; prevent spread of hemoparasitic diseases of livestock; determine pathobiology of prion strains; reveal genetics of prion disease susceptibility; and diagnose, detect, and prevent prion diseases.
The Action Plan also provides for antimicrobial resistance aiming to combat antimicrobial resistance through the development of alternatives to antibiotics; provide tools to allow farmers and veterinarians to optimize the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture; to support availability of new medical countermeasures to prevent and treat animal diseases, availability of new tools fit for intensive animal production systems, and availability of new feed additives with defined modes of action to enhance the health of agricultural animals.