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Grass roots vaccination campaigns support rabies eradication in Kenya

Rabies vaccination campaign in Laikipia (photo credit: Laikipia Wildlife Forum). Today we celebrate the World Zoonoses Day. To raise awareness about the risks of zoonotic disease, a recent study by scientists from a cohort of institutes including the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI...

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New study examines effectiveness of grassroots dog vaccination campaigns against rabies in Kenya

World Zoonoses Day is commemorated on 6 July every year to mark the day in 1885 when Louis Pasteur successfully administered the first vaccine against rabies, a deadly zoonotic disease. The day is also an occasion to raise awareness of the risk of zoonoses, infectious diseases that can be spread...

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Using virtual communication tools to support northern Kenya partners during the COVID-19 pandemic

An aerial view of the Oldonyiro Livestock Market in Isiolo County (photo credit: USAID/Mwangi Kirubi). Update from the livestock component of the AVCD program Over the last three months ( April – June ), the livestock value chain (LVC) team of the Accelerated Value Chain Development (AVCD) program...

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Making livestock vaccination campaigns work for farmers in East Africa

A gender-inclusive approach to community livestock vaccination can help address the different barriers faced by men and women farmers and may increase the uptake of livestock vaccines Scientists at the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ) recently published a study  on the uptake of...

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ILRI’s ‘Azizi’ facility is storing samples of livestock and wildlife biodiversity for future research

Written by Ekta Patel and Paul Karaimu Cylindrical liquid nitrogen sample storage tanks. Nairobi-based diplomatic missions visited the ILRI campus in Nairobi on 5 December 2019, visiting the Aziz Biorepository (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)...

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‘A vaccine is coming—the question is how soon’

Nobel Prize winner Peter Doherty addressed the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) at its latest Town Hall meeting Nobel Prize winner in physiology or medicine and ILRI patron Peter Doherty discussed vaccines, herd immunity, and policy responses to COVID-19 with Director General Jimmy...

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Woman veterinarian pioneers public-private partnership to improve veterinary service delivery in Ethiopia

Netsanet Sitotaw, 25, is a young veterinarian and the owner of ‘Netsanet Sitotaw’, a veterinary clinic in Bahir Dar, in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region. She is the pioneer of a ‘public-private partnership (PPP) for vaccination services’, which is providing rabies vaccination services in the town and is...

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Expanding capacity for participatory disease surveillance in Uganda

Uganda field work in Bugiri using proportional piling to assess disease mobility and mortality in livestock (photo credit: ILRI) . This article was written by Ekta Patel and edited by Paul Karaimu In an effort to support animal disease surveillance in Uganda, Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (VSF)...

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‘A chance to reimagine life in a way that creates greater dignity for all’

In a spirited and at times defiantly hopeful presentation at the International Livestock Research Institute’s (ILRI) weekly digital town hall meeting on 14 May, David Nabarro, a special envoy to the World Health Organization (WHO) Director General on COVID-19, called the virus causing the disease ‘...

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Are COVID-19 and other emerging infectious diseases a message from Mother Nature? —Leading Vietnamese media outlet interviews two of Vietnam’s Ecohealth experts

ILRI Clippings Written by Chi Nguyen In Tan Lac District of the mountainous province of Hoa Binh, Vietnam, people live in close proximity to livestock (photo credit: Vu Ngoc Dung). VTV1, the leading Vietnamese state-run media outlet, recently interviewed Hung Nguyen, regional representative for...

ILRI Asia blog

Are COVID-19 and other emerging infectious diseases a message from Mother Nature? —Leading Vietnamese media outlet interviews two of Vietnam’s Ecohealth experts

ILRI Clippings Written by Chi Nguyen In Tan Lac District of the mountainous province of Hoa Binh, Vietnam, people live in close proximity to livestock (photo credit: Vu Ngoc Dung). VTV1, the leading Vietnamese state-run media outlet, recently interviewed Hung Nguyen, regional representative for...

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ILRI’s response to the pandemic: A deepening engagement with the press and policymakers

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is launching an initiative to share, as broadly as possible, its research on issues related to COVID-19 with the media, policymakers and the public, and to make its experts available to comment on fast-moving developments in the field. Since its...