In February 2006, IRD was funded by USAID/Kiev to launch the 'Rapid Response to Avian Influenza' program. The program targets people living in four areas of Crimea (Sovietskiy, Nizhnegorskiy, Djankoy and Chernomorskiy) and monitors AI in these rayons by strengthening community-based monitoring and surveillance systems and organizing a public awareness campaign to inform and educate affected communities about avian influenza.

PATH is supporting USAID's response to AI risks in Ukraine. For this work, PATH carried out the following primary activities: conducted a rapid assessment of oblast readiness to respond to an occurrence of AI in Ukraine; purchased personal protective equipment for workers culling birds and diagnostic equipment and reagents for regional veterinary and sanitary epidemiological station laboratories; and provided epidemiological expertise to The Center for Ukrainian Reform Education (CURE) in support of their AI media outreach.