Overview

Acaricides are a key method to control ticks and prevent tick-borne diseases in cattle. However, inappropriate selection and application of acaricide products can lead to treatment failures and acaricide resistance.

MAHABA (Managing Animal Health and Acaricides for Better Africa) is a 5-year initiative, in collaboration with Elanco Animal Health, to support small-scale producers in Nigeria and Uganda to manage and effectively control ticks and tick-borne diseases.

The project will develop and deliver an effective and practical strategy to control tick infestations while providing small-scale producers (SSPs) the necessary tools (acaricides) and knowledge (through an innovative digital platform) to realize significant livestock productivity gains.

MAHABA activities and objectives are designed around three main pillars:

• Market intelligence: To better understand the current use of acaricide by SSPs and related resistance issues
• Awareness and education: To train and educate SSPs on effective use of acaricides to allow sustainable tick control
• Availability and adoption: To facilitate product registration of effective acaricides including small package manufacturing

Objectives

• More than 33 products registered to use against ticks
• 450,000 farmers trained
• 29m of product doses sold

Further information

Elanco Animal Health

Overview

The PREVENT project (PRomoting and Enabling Vaccination Efficiently, Now and Tomorrow), is a 4-year initiative that aims to establish an innovative and pragmatic veterinary health platform in Africa through medium-size hatchery vaccination.

Improvement in poultry production is one of the most promising options to provide affordable protein and other essential nutrients to Africa’s rapidly growing population. To date, deficient effectiveness of poultry vaccination and lack of information about circulating infectious diseases, have been an issue to small-scale producers in Africa. The PREVENT project, that will work with 36 medium-sized hatcheries spread across eleven African countries, will enable the hatcheries to provide high-quality, vaccinated day-old chicks to small-scale livestock producers (SSPs) together with practical advice and guidance from a team of field technicians. These actions will result into improved flock health, expansion of flock sizes and ultimately transform the lives of SSPs economically.

Objectives

• To create an effective sector of medium-sized African hatcheries through vaccination, training, and technical support to SSPs
• To help 150,000 poultry producers across the targeted countries to become more productive and efficient
• To have more than 50 million hatchery-vaccinated day-old chicks distributed annually
• To be gender intentional by understanding gender dynamics in the small-scale poultry sector and evaluating what happens when poultry production intensifies
• To identify circulating diseases in areas where the project will be active

Further information

Ceva Santé Animale (Ceva)

Videos

PREVENT: Improving Poultry Production in sub-Saharan Africa

The PREVENT project 

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Overview

GALVmed and Animal health company Laprovet have partnered in a commercial importation and distribution project for animal health products, which is being implemented in Senegal. The project is targeted toward setting up new distribution networks for the sale of animal health products to small-scale producers (SSPs).

Objectives

The LAPROVET project is aimed at forging a sustainable smallholder-focused animal health distribution network in Senegal.  The main objective is to support traditional and emergent commercial poultry and ruminant farming by modernizing the distribution landscape in the country. Another key element is the promotion of prophylaxis and biosecurity measures to retailers and farmers through activities of sensitization, technical capacity building and affordable diagnostic services.

Key objectives:

• The development of a sustainable network for the distribution of pharmaceuticals and vaccines in the Central region of Senegal
• Sensitization of small-scale producers (mainly backyard poultry and small ruminant traditional farmers) on good prophylaxis practices.

Further information

Laprovet

Videos

Overview

In many African countries, small-scale livestock producers (SSPs) have limited or no access to high-quality veterinary medical products. Economic losses due to livestock diseases limit farmers’ opportunities and livelihoods, as they face deficient product availability and affordability, poor distribution channels, and low levels of awareness about livestock diseases.

The LastMile Initiative, implemented in partnership with Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) across six African countries (Kenya, Cameroon, Mali, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Nigeria), is designed to address weak distribution channels of animal health products as well as helping the SSPs in these countries to increase their knowledge on disease prevention and treatment. Additionally, through this initiative a number of new BI products will be registered in a number of Africa countries.

Objectives

The main objective of the LastMile project is to facilitate Boehringer Ingelheim’s expansion into the African market and thereby afford SSPs with an improved portfolio of animal health products. This is achieved by the registration of a range of products in the countries in scope and building awareness at farm level through visits by veterinary para professionals.

Further information

Boehringer Ingelheim

Videos

Transforming veterinary services through a digital app

Walking the Last Mile