GALVmed focuses on 13 key diseases that are most relevant to poverty reduction in target areas.  These 13 diseases are broken into four categories: avian, swine, small ruminant and cattle diseases, although some of them affect more than one category.  The loss of livestock due to these infections is devastating to the existence of their owners, making vaccinations and treatment crucial to the economic and physical well-being of the farmers.

Newcastle Disease
Viral disease of birds, mainly chicken, with a wide range of clinical signs from mild to severe, highly prevalent in backyard poultry in developing countries where it causes high mortalities in unvaccinated chickens.

Avian Influenza 
Highly contagious disease of wild and domestic birds,  caused by extremely variable viruses of the influenzavirus A genus, resulting in mild or highly fatal and rapidly spreading disease.

African Swine Fever
A highly contagious hemorrhagic viral disease of pigs and warthogs, characterised by high mortality in animals of all ages.

Porcine Cysticercosis
With a worldwide spread, Porcine cysticercosis is a parasitic zoonosis cause by infestation with the cestode Taenia solium, for which the pig is an intermediate host while man is the final host.
 
Classical Swine Fever
Also known as hog cholera, classical swine fever is a highly contagious and economically significant viral disease of pigs, with varying severity, depending on the type of virus and factors such as age or immune status of the pigs. Acute forms result in high mortality rates.

Peste des Petits Ruminants
Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) is a highly contagious viral disease of sheep and goats, resulting in heavy losses, especially in goats. Initially confined to West Africa, PPR has been spreading across the African continent as well as in the Middle East and South Asia.

Sheep & Goat Pox
Sheep & goat pox are highly contagious viral diseases of small ruminants, characterised by high mortality in newly introduced naïve animals, and economic losses due to decreased milk production and damage to the hide and wool.

Rift Valley Fever
Rift Valley Fever is a peracute or acute insect-borne zoonotic disease of domestic ruminants in Africa and the Middle East, characterized by high mortality rates in young animals and abortions in pregnant ruminants. The disease, which can result in large number of human cases, is associated with climatic conditions that favour the explosion of mosquito population.

Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia
One of the most severe diseases in goats, Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia affects the respiratory tract and may result in mortality rates as high as 80%.

Hemorrhagic Septicaemia
Hemorrhagic septicaemia is a fast-moving bacterial disease that can kill animals, especially cattle and water buffalo within hours on the onset.

Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia
Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia is a highly contagious respiratory disease affecting cows. It is considered the most economically important disease of cattle in Africa.

East Coast Fever
East Coast fever is a serious, often fatal, tick-borne parasitic disease of cattle that causes major economic losses in eastern, central and southern Africa.

Trypanosomosis
Trypanosomosis, transmitted by the bite of the tsetse fly, is a parasitic disease caused by several species of Trypanosoma, with most economic impact in cattle, resulting in a chronic illness which often ends in the death of the affected animal.