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Rift Valley Fever
Rift Valley fever, a zoonotic disease that spreads from animals to humans, broke out in Kenya, Tanzania and Somalia in 2007, killing thousands of livestock.
About GALVmed
GALVmed is a registered charity and not-for-profit global alliance of public, private and government partners.
Nearly 700 million of the world’s poorest people rely on livestock for their survival, and animal diseases devastate the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world. GALVmed is making livestock vaccines, diagnostics and medicines accessible, affordable and available to the millions for whom livestock is a lifeline.
Path to Progress
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Department for International Development have entrusted 28 million USD to GALVmed over the next three years to make livestock vaccines, diagnostics and medicines accessible, affordable and available to the poorest people.
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29/4/2009Tabitha's job as the Toggenburg buck keeper in the FARM-Africa Kenya Dairy Goat Capacity Building Project helps support her family.
