Product development is only the first step in improving livestock health in the world’s lower and middle-income countries. There needs to be an enabling policy and regulatory environment that encourages animal health companies to register, distribute and sell their products in new countries.

GALVmed partnered with SEBI-L to develop a model for practical use for our market development programmes. The model is used to estimate the economic impact of the initiatives on small-scale producers.

Like in other sectors, businesses in animal health also have as their objective efficient delivery of their products, often for a profit to ensure sustainability. While achievable, it is a however a challenge or a barrier in markets comprised predominantly of small-scale livestock producers (SSPs).

Animal health services and products are still out of reach for millions of Small-Scale Producers (SSPs) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and South Asia (SA). Even though SSPs account for a large number of animal keepers in SSA and SA, they are scattered, concentrated in rural areas and operate their production on low input, low output system. This makes animal health service provision challenging.

The barriers to trade in AHI have led to LMICs markets being insufficiently attractive to sustain the case for investment in the development of targeted products and markets by multinational companies. Some of the barriers to trade in LMICs include incomplete market information.

Despite small-scale livestock producers’ key role in the agricultural industry, existing market barriers and constraints hinder their opportunities to access high-quality animal health products and services.

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.

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