More than 75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic in origin and a transdisciplinary, multi-sectoral One Health approach is a key strategy for their effective prevention and control. In 2004, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention office in Kenya (CDC Kenya) established the Global ...
OHIZ One Health index on zoonoses Full size image Subindicator scores of the OHIZ in the sub-Sahara African countries The average capacity in strategy and regulation to respond to and prevent sources of infection for sub-Sahara African countries was 39.55 for national guidelines for surveillance/...
Zoonoses constitute a key indicator of One Health (OH) and the OH approach is being applied for zoonosis control programmes of zoonotic diseases. In a very recent study, we developed an evaluation system for OH performance through the global OH index (GOHI). This study applied the GOHI to ...
Strengthening preparedness for arbovirus infections in Mediterranean and Black Sea countries: a conceptual framework to assess integrated surveillance in the context of the one health strategy Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 15 (2018), p. 489, 10.3390/ijerph15030489 View in ScopusGoogle Schola...
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In Uganda, Environmental Health Practitioners (EHPs) carry out several duties that contribute towards One Health. These include: inspection of animals before slaughter (antemortem) and meat in abattoirs (postmortem); inspection of meat in butcheries; destruction of condemned meat; disease surveillance...
How often do you upgrade your smartphone? According to research by Strategy Analytics, for most people around the world, the answer is 2-3 years on average.
New vector-control tools are urgently needed to reduce malaria in areas where there is significant transmission after deployment of indoor residual spraying (IRS) and insecticide treated nets. Insecticide-treated livestock (ITL) is a potential novel strategy by which zoophagic mosquitos are killed afte...
GSMA reports that 43 percent of people globally are still not connected even though they have network coverage. In Kenya, less than 50 percent of people use the Internet, even though 3G and 4G networks cover 80 percent of the population. The reason is that many people aren’t aware ...
As monitoring of ZVL in companion animals is extremely important for the control and preven- tion of the human disease, ZVL is one of the best exam- ples of a disease whose successful control and eradication depends upon the use of a One Health strategy. Acknowledgements and Funding The ...