How to bridge the divide across Africa’s fragmented veterinary medicine sector

With a rapidly growing population and demand for animal-derived protein, enabling the veterinary sector to address the diverse needs and challenges of small-scale producers is not only possible, but also critical to Africa’s sustainable development.

How Clinical Diagnostics Could Help the Global Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance

The misuse of antibiotics in both human and animal health has created an urgent health emergency globally. The resistance of microbes to antibiotics that are constantly used to combat them makes infections harder to treat, creating an antimicrobial resistance (AMR) crisis directly responsible for up to 1.27 million global human deaths as of 2019.

Modelling and field studies: Essential M&E tools to understand our impact

Understanding how adoption translates into economic and other benefits for SSPs is central to our mission. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) gives us a structured way to assess these outcomes.

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Monitoring and Evaluation: Designing for impact

At GALVmed, Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is not an afterthought. It is integrated from the very start of the development of new projects and programmes. This approach ensures that our projects are designed with a clear vision of impact.

Breaking new ground in the regulatory environment: the EAC Mutual Recognition Procedure expands its product scope to include veterinary ectoparasiticides

As of June 2024, the Mutual Recognition Procedure has been extended to also include registration of veterinary ectoparasiticides.

Stronger regulations would bolster food security and livelihoods in Africa

A functioning regulatory framework helps to equip livestock producers with quality products, supporting them to protect their livelihoods and their vital contributions to continental food security.

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.

PREVENT: How hatchery vaccinations are boosting poultry production in Africa

Three years since inception and with over a year left on the project, PREVENT has performed remarkably and is on track to achieving, and in some instances exceeding, its targets.

How Digital Innovation Will Unlock the Potential of Africa’s Livestock Producers

For the past few years, GALVmed has been working with a wide range of partners to create a suite of digital platforms designed to finally bridge the gaps between the animal health industry and the continent’s small-scale producers.

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.