A vaccine that is transforming lives
Written by: Stuart Brown, Assistant Director of Business Development at GALVmed Joy is a tough thing to bottle. To me, this photo, taken by my friend and colleague Dr Victor Mbao […]
Animals & Us: A new series from WOAH featuring GALVmed
The series Animals & Us explores the strong connection between the health of animals and people. In GALVmed’s film, we explore how innovation, collaboration, and vaccination of livestock help protect animals, strengthen communities, and advance One Health.
The CTTBD ECF Vaccine:Greater opportunity to control East Coast fever and other tick-borne diseases in Africa
The Centre for Ticks and Tick Borne Disease (CTTBD) in Malawi is now successfully producing the first batch of East Coast fever (ECF) vaccine, also known as the Muguga Cocktail. Because of […]
Malawi launches the Centre for Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases to Lead in the Fight against East Coast fever Disease
The Centre will be the sole producer of the ‘one shot for life’ East Coast fever Muguga cocktail ITM vaccine that will help protect 25 million cattle across eleven African countries. […]
The CTTBD ECF vaccine: Responding to poor livestock keepers’ needs
Written by: Dr Victor Mbao, Programme Manager, Large Ruminants, GALVmed The Centre for Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases (CTTBD) is currently producing the ‘one shot for life’ Muguga trivalent (cocktail) East Coast Fever vaccine. […]
CTTBD:The Complete Full Circle
Written by: Dr Hameed Nuru, Senior Director of Policy and External Affairs at GALVmed Since 2008, GALVmed has taken on the daunting challenge of trying to facilitate the control of East […]
Time for African livestock keepers to take control of their own destiny
By: Abdallah Said Twahir, Director of Market Development and Access at GALVmed The Centre for Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases, or just CTTBD as it is better known, is in the outskirts […]
GALVmed meets… Korleri Thakur from Orissa, India
Korleri Thakur is a farmer with a jumbo-sized problem. Although her family has four acres of land and should be able to produce enough food to support the household, the local wild elephants often destroy her crops and sometimes even knock down the hut the family lives in
GALVmed Newsletter, July 2011
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Africa’s regional approach to veterinary medicine fraud
African veterinary officers have agreed that a regional approach is essential in fighting organised fraud and tackling the alarming level of adulterated veterinary medicines being marketed in the continent. This […]