Tags: animal health

ILRI News on animal health

23 Jul 2021

Global Burden of Animal Diseases: A novel approach to understanding and managing disease in livestock and aquaculture

Header image: After training, community animal health workers like Ahmet Mahmoud Habib, in Ethiopia, are able to treat most sick animals (photo credit: Kelley Lynch / USAID Ethiopia). A new scientific paper outlines how a new(ish) program to assess the Global Burden of Animal Diseases will tackle...

ILRI News

01 Jul 2021

BUILD Uganda launches quarterly newsletter

The Boosting Uganda’s Investment in Livestock Development (BUILD) project inaugural newsletter edition has been published. The newsletter, which will be produced quarterly, is a platform to share project outputs and updates with colleagues, partners, donors and other stakeholder groups. The BUILD...

Pamela WairagalaCommunications and Knowledge Management Senior Officer

ILRI News

24 Jun 2021

New study identifies contextual factors for the control of pork tapeworm in endemic areas

Access to services such as toilets and clean water, local knowledge, cultural norms and taboos; and the presence of regulatory frameworks such as meat inspection are among the key factors that determine the success or failure of Taenia solium control measures in endemic areas. These are the...

Nicholas NgwiliGraduate Fellow(ILRI)
Geoffrey NjengaCommunications Officer

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Publications on animal health

Journal Article

Published2021

Global Burden of Animal Diseases: A novel approach to understanding and managing disease in livestock and aquaculture

Journal Article

Published2021

Epidemic disease risks and implications for veterinary services

Journal Article

Published2021

Antimicrobial resistance at the livestock-human interface: Implications for veterinary services

Journal Article

Published2021

One hundred years of zoonoses research in the Horn of Africa: A scoping review

Report

Published2021

Community-based approach for the control of gastrointestinal parasites under smallholder sheep farming systems

Report

Published2021

Public-Private Partnership (PPP) for delivery of animal health service: PPP model development and planning

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ILRI Projects on animal health

Aug 2020Aug 2025

Feed the Future Animal Health Innovation Lab

The Feed the Future Animal Health Innovation Lab will develop local capacity in Kenya to carry out laboratory-based animal health research to improve East Coast fever vaccines and diagnostics and conduct social and economic evaluations of the effects of animal health interventions on human...

Jun 2020Jun 2023

Management of animal diseases and antimicrobial use by information and communication technology to control antimicrobial resistance in East Africa

Antimicrobial resistance is a serious threat to global public health and interventions to address it are urgently required. The project applies information and communications technology in poultry production to enhance poultry health, reduce the need to use antibiotics and limit the risk of...

Jan 2021Dec 2021

Silvopastoralism and welfare of animals in Borana

Silvopastoralism is a form of agroforestry that involves integrating trees, forage and the grazing of domesticated animals in a mutually beneficial way. This project will develop site-specific action plans to strengthen silvopastoralism and its value chain integrating management of dry forests,...

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