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ILRI News on PPR

22 Oct 2021

Pacem Kotchofa’s PPR research wins second place at World Food Forum’s Transformative Research Challenge

Pacem Kotchofa, a Beninese-born agricultural economist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) who leads the socio-economic thematic group of the Peste de Petits Ruminants (PPR) Global Research and Expertise Network (PPR GREN), was awarded second place at the World Food Forum’s...

Brenda CorominaPrinceton in Africa Fellow: Assistant Writer/Editor

ILRI News

11 Feb 2021

Strengthening wildlife health capacities and use of One Health can support global efforts to eradicate ‘goat plague’

In Africa, ILRI is implementing the Epidemiology and Control of Peste des petits ruminants (ECO-PPR) research project, with several partners in East and West Africa and in collaboration with French Agricultural Research and International Cooperation organization (CIRAD) and the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) to support initiatives towards eradicating PPR.

Ekta PatelScientist & Communications Manager - Biosciences

ILRI News

14 Oct 2020

Training researchers virtually when supplies can cross borders but people cannot

Written by Zoë Campbell Contents of the peste des petits ruminants virus antigen rapid test kit [ID Rapid® PPR Antigen, IDVet, France] (photo credit: ILRI/Bryony Anne Jones). In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, supplies can cross international borders, but the same is not always true for...

Zoë CampbellPostdoctoral fellow, Gender

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Publications on PPR

Brief

Published2021

Livestock Health―ECo-PPR Project: Tools to support peste des petits ruminants (PPR) control and eradication

Report

Published2021

Survey of Cluster 1 activities within the Animal Health flagship of the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock

Poster

Published2021

Risk analysis of peste des petits ruminants in Uganda

Poster

Published2021

Market and production dynamics of small ruminants and their implications on peste des petits ruminants disease spread in pastoral communities

Poster

Published2021

The effect of concurrent vaccine administration for peste des petits ruminants, capripox and contagious caprine pleuropneumonia on immunity of sheep and goats in Uganda

Report

Published2021

Scaling Scan Report: Ghana Livestock Vaccine Innovation Fund Project

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ILRI Projects on PPR

Jun 2019May 2022

Epidemiology and control of peste des petits ruminants in East and West Africa

The global strategy for the control and eradication of peste des petits ruminants has been endorsed by more than 200 countries with the vision of a world free of the disease by 2030. This project supports ongoing global control and eradication efforts led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of...

PPR

ILRI News on PPR

Pacem Kotchofa’s PPR research wins second place at World Food Forum’s Transformative Research Challenge

Strengthening wildlife health capacities and use of One Health can support global efforts to eradicate ‘goat plague’

Training researchers virtually when supplies can cross borders but people cannot

Publications on PPR

Livestock Health―ECo-PPR Project: Tools to support peste des petits ruminants (PPR) control and eradication

Survey of Cluster 1 activities within the Animal Health flagship of the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock

Risk analysis of peste des petits ruminants in Uganda

Market and production dynamics of small ruminants and their implications on peste des petits ruminants disease spread in pastoral communities

The effect of concurrent vaccine administration for peste des petits ruminants, capripox and contagious caprine pleuropneumonia on immunity of sheep and goats in Uganda

Scaling Scan Report: Ghana Livestock Vaccine Innovation Fund Project

ILRI Projects on PPR

Epidemiology and control of peste des petits ruminants in East and West Africa

Peste des petits ruminants (PPR): developing a pan African strategy for disease control