by VSF | Oct 29, 2024
VSF International, October 2024 Since the early 1990s, Community Animal Health Workers (CAHWs) have been trained to provide basic animal health and production services to livestock keepers in Africa, Asia, Latin America and in the Middle East. They bridge a gap in...
by VSF | Oct 27, 2023
VSF International, November 2023 Living in close contact with animals and their natural environment, members of rural communities – and livestock farmers in particular – often have a deep-rooted understanding of the One Health approach. However, actors...
by VSF | Mar 20, 2023
by Charles Hoots, VSF International, 2023 Community-based animal health workers (CAHWs) are present in dozens of countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. They deliver valuable animal health services to livestock keepers in rural areas where other animal health...
by VSF | Mar 15, 2023
A report by the Action for Animal Health coalition, 2023 While One Health is gaining traction at a global level to combat emerging health threats, there are significant barriers to delivering it on the ground because of the lack of investment in animal health...
by VSF | Sep 27, 2021
Published by VSF International and Vets Beyond Borders Australia. September 2021. Rabies is a neglected zoonotic disease that causes an estimated 59,000 human deaths every year, with 40% of the victims being children. Rabies affects the most vulnerable populations:...
by VSF | Mar 5, 2019
Summary of an internal workshop organised by VSF-International and AVSF in Bamako, Mali, on 7th and 8th November 2018. Following several exchanges within the VSF-International network (VSF-Int) on the One Health approach (including a position paper in 2014) and just...
by VSF | Aug 29, 2018
VSF International Policy Brief n. 5 – September 2018 In many rural areas in the global South, the number of qualified veterinarians often does not suffice to provide quality animal health services at local level. In these areas, inhabited by livestock and agricultural...
by VSF | Jul 11, 2018
Forced Migration Review, June 2018. The Forced Migration Review (FMR) magazine Published a special feature on humans and animals in refugee camps with two aims. First, to highlight for practitioners and policymakers the variety and importance of human–animal...
by VSF | Mar 10, 2018
Thèse pour obtenir le grade de Docteur Vétérinaire – Université Paul-Sabatier de Toulouse Margot Galière, 2017 Dans le cadre d’un travail conçu avec AVSF et le réseau VSF-International, Margot Galière a méné un enquête afin de recenser les dispositifs de santé...
by VSF | May 20, 2016
Policy Brief, VSF Belgium May 2016 Ce Policy Brief dresse l’état des lieux des services de santé animale en Afrique de l’Ouest et formule quelques recommandations afin qu’ils soient mieux adaptés au pastoralisme. Bien que le pastoralisme ait des fonctions...
