Prioritizing smallholder animal health needs in East Africa, West Africa, and South Asia using three approaches: Literature review, expert workshops, and practitioner surveys.

Managing the health needs of livestock contributes to reducing poverty and improving the livelihoods of smallholder and pastoralist livestock keepers globally. Animal health practitioners, producers, policymakers, and researchers all must prioritize how to mobilize limited resources. This study employed three approaches to prioritize animal health needs in East and West Africa and South Asia to identify diseases and syndromes that impact livestock keepers.

Implementation of a practical and effective pilot intervention against transmission of Taenia solium by pigs in the Banke district of Nepal.

Taenia solium is a zoonotic cestode parasite which causes human neurocysticercosis. Pigs transmit the parasite by acting as the intermediate host. An intervention was implemented to control transmission of T.

Assessing the impact of a novel strategy for delivering animal health interventions to smallholder farmers.

In many countries of the developing world village poultry play a vital role in the rural economy, providing a source of protein and valuable income with relatively small investments. In almost all areas in which village poultry are raised Newcastle disease (ND) is identified as one of the biggest causes of poultry loss, this is often coupled with a lack of knowledge of poultry management practices. Inexpensive and effective vaccines are available that are suitable for use in rural village environments, but in many areas service providers and reliable structures for delivery remain an obstacle to uptake of vaccines.

A hyperendemic focus of Taenia solium transmission in the Banke District of Nepal.

Neurocysticercosis is a major cause of epilepsy in countries where Taenia solium is endemic and the parasite is a major cause of food-borne disease globally. Pigs are the natural intermediate host involved in transmission of the parasite. T.