One billion lives depend on livestock

GALVmed aims to make a significant contribution towards transformational change in the small-scale livestock health landscape by developing a portfolio of high impact products and initiating a range of private sector market initiatives operating at scale in the smallholder sector.

About us

Our Vision

Transformational improvement in the well-being and economic progression of small-scale livestock producers.

Our Mission

We will contribute to the transformation of small-scale livestock producers’ lives by:

  • understanding the constraints to animal health and how to overcome them;
  • engaging the animal health industry; and
  • ensuring awareness, availability and adoption of effective animal health interventions.

Our work

Product development

GALVmed specialises in product development partnerships uniquely established to translate global research progress into tangible livestock disease control tools for the developing world.

Commercial development

Our work with our partners supports the small-scale livestock producers of the world.

Enabling Environment

An enabling environment that allows for the successful translation of research products to sustainable animal health solutions for small scale livestock producers is essential to achieving GALVmed’s mission.

Blog

Celebrating 2 years of achievements with PREVENT

PREVENT is an initiative to establish an innovative and pragmatic veterinary health platform in Africa through hatchery vaccination. PREVENT comprises various workstreams that are connecting the key pieces to achieve this endgame.

The relation between gender inclusion and food security 

Gender blindness in agriculture and in the livestock sector in particular, continues to limit production in many rural areas, and evidence shows that the more gender inequality there is in a country, the hungrier and …

Working towards achieving gender inclusion in the livestock sector 

Women around the world still face many challenges and disadvantages based on their sex/gender identity, and the agriculture and livestock sectors are no exception. 

Women continue to face challenges like unequal access to resources such as …

Voices from the field

Celebrating 2 years of achievements with PREVENT

PREVENT is an initiative to establish an innovative and pragmatic veterinary health platform in Africa through hatchery vaccination. PREVENT comprises various workstreams that are connecting the key pieces to achieve this endgame.

The relation between gender inclusion and food security 

Working towards achieving gender inclusion in the livestock sector 

What could gender inclusion in livestock health look like?  

GALVmed provides updates on small ruminants’ vaccine development

In a Stakeholder Seminar series led by FAO, held in January, GALVmed presented its work on small ruminant vaccines with a focus on Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR).

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