Creating an enabling environment for the regulation of veterinary medicines in Africa
The Better Regulation project is set to further improve the regulatory systems in sub-Saharan Africa required to bring new veterinary products into market.
ONELab – Diagnostic Solution to Small-scale Poultry Farming
In 2020, LAPROVET, a Ceva Santé Animale group company, partnered with GALVmed and launched the OneLab initiative, a programme to develop a network of private veterinary laboratories in Senegal to facilitate access to diagnostic tools.
GALVmed’s Achievements
Working in collaboration with partners, GALVmed has implemented, over the years, impactful programmes across Africa and South Asia. These are some of GALVmed’s achievements from 2014 to 2022.
Barriers in the livestock health market: Service provision
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.
Barriers to livestock health market: Intelligence
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.
Using bespoke technologies could address market barriers in the small-scale livestock sector
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.
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).
Improved healthcare increases milk yields for small-scale dairy producers
Small-scale dairy production in developing countries is subject to many risks from diseases. In India, GALVmed is working with Hester Biosciences to improve the knowledge of small-scale dairy producers in […]
Vaccinations boost poultry farming in Burkina Faso
Poultry farming is an important economic activity for many small-scale producers in Burkina Faso, however, farmers’ flocks are constantly threatened by preventable diseases like Newcastle Disease, which can kill up […]
The challenges facing women small-scale producers and how we can help
The International Women’s Day is celebrated annually on March 8 to recognise the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The theme for 2022 is #BreakTheBias, for there is […]