Para-veterinary professionals and the development of quality, self-sustaining community-based services

Catley, Andy; Leyland, Tim; Mariner, Jeffrey C.; Akabwai, Darlington; Admassu, Berhanu; Asfaw, Woldie; Bekele, Gezu; Hassan, Hashibul

doi:10.20506/rst.23.1.1476

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“…To supplement the formal veterinary extension system, governments and aid groups have experimented with training community-selected representatives to provide livestock health services (Catley et al 2004). A project that trained community animal health workers (CAHWs) in northern Tanzania experienced reductions in calf mortality between 59% and 93% (Nalitolela et al 2001).…”

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Educating pastoralists and extension officers on diverse livestock diseases in a changing environment in Tanzania

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East African pastoralists and their livestock are vulnerable to alterations in resource availability and disease transmission and frequently face poor access to livestock health services. Government veterinarians tasked with guiding health services must prioritize livestock health risks and allocate limited resources across disparate ecosystems with different disease threats. To identify livestock diseases of concern and strategies for improving herd health and resilience, we conducted community focus groups with pastoralists and interviewed pastoralist household leaders, village extension officers, and government veterinary officials in south-central Tanzania, an area experiencing rapid population growth and environmental change. All participants discussed pastoralist access to livestock health services, livestock disease priorities, and means to improve livestock health. Perceptions of diseases of importance differed among pastoralists, extension officers, and government veterinarians. Spatial differences in diseases of concern among study area pastoralists emphasized the need for locally adaptable livestock health service delivery. Although pastoralist strategies to improve livestock health differed by ethnic group, many pastoralists as well as extension officers and government veterinarians identified livestock health education and training for pastoralists and extension officers as a critical need. Policies designed at the regional, rather than the local, level may not reflect the disease concerns of the entire area. To effectively address veterinary health problems and make livestock herds more resilient to environmental change, conditions at the local level must be considered. Education targeted to pastoralist households and extension officers could achieve greater flexibility in the livestock health system and provide more reliable information about local conditions for governmental policymakers.

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Educating pastoralists and extension officers on diverse livestock diseases in a changing environment in Tanzania

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“…Institutionalized mass vaccination was ceased and resources were focused on large, high-risk communities identified by participatory techniques. An intensive 12-month program of community-based vaccination (Catley et al, 2004;Mariner et al, 1994) achieved >80% vaccination within the targeted areas and vaccination was immediately halted. Rinderpest has not been detected in southern Sudan since that time and the Government of Sudan officially reclassified the region from an infected to a surveillance zone in their declaration to the Office International des Epizooties (OIE) in 2003.…”

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“…The suspicion that small communities are potentially capable of harbouring infection for a prolonged period of time has lead to a strategy where vaccination is being with-held while a community-based delivery and surveillance system is being built that can reliably achieve epidemiologically targeted vaccination to cattle at maximum coverage levels despite chronic insecurity (Catley et al, 2004).…”

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A model of lineage-1 and lineage-2 rinderpest virus transmission in pastoral areas of East Africa

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Preventive Veterinary Medicine

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The development of a stochastic, state-transition model of rinderpest transmission dynamics is described using parameter estimates obtained from both laboratory and participatory research. Using serological data, the basic reproduction numbers for lineage-1 rinderpest virus in southern Sudan and for lineage-2 rinderpest virus in Somali livestock were estimated as 4.4 and between 1.2 and 1.9, respectively. The model predictions for the inter-epidemic period in Sudan and Somalia (1.2 and 4.2 years, respectively) were in agreement with analysis of livestock-owner reports (1-2 years and 5 years, respectively). #

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“…However, these efforts were often undermined by inadequate supporting legislation and poorly paid veterinary officers supplementing salaries with drug sales. 105,106 Case study 3: Limiting antibiotic use in the animal sector-the policy evidence from Denmark…”

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“…113 Some NGOs have provided a middle ground in capacity building, education and facilitation of improved stewardship in LMICs and report improvements in both veterinary and para-veterinary sectors. 105,106,113,114 The majority of these programmes are limited in scope, however, and have not been robustly evaluated.…”

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Exploring the evidence base for national and regional policy interventions to combat resistance

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Para-veterinary professionals and the development of quality, self-sustaining community-based services

Cited by 54 publications

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Educating pastoralists and extension officers on diverse livestock diseases in a changing environment in Tanzania

Educating pastoralists and extension officers on diverse livestock diseases in a changing environment in Tanzania

A model of lineage-1 and lineage-2 rinderpest virus transmission in pastoral areas of East Africa

Exploring the evidence base for national and regional policy interventions to combat resistance

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