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New Livestock and Climate Change CRSP Research Brief
RB-07-2012 - Pastoralist Access to Livestock Health Services: Implications for Climate Change-Driven Disease
Ian Gardner, E. VanWormer, C.R. Gustafson, G. Paul, A. Makweta, J.A.K. Mazet, W.A. Miller, and R.Kazwala, HALI Project
Pastoralists and livestock populations in semi-arid grassland regions across the world are extremely vulnerable to climate change impacts on water, pasture, and disease dynamics. Disease, especially, can have devastating effects on livestock survival and marketability, threatening animal health and livelihoods. In order to address this growing problem, researchers working in the Ruaha region of Tanzania have been preforming capacity assessments of the livestock health services available to rural pastoralists.
HALI’s new e-book!
Over the past year HALI has been working with the USFWS Wildlife Without Borders program, and Ruaha National Park on an education and outreach program to help park rangers and local game scouts of the MBOMIPA community led Wildlife Management Areas.
Emanating from this series of participatory training programs for park staff, rangers, and game scouts, a new HALI interactive handbook was developed to serve as a first reference guide to Recognizing, Investigating, and Reporting Diseases of Concern for Wildlife Conservation and Human Health.
Download the HALI Wildlife Health Handbook (English – 7.2MB)
Download the HALI Kitabu cha Afya Wanyamapori (Kiswahli – 7.2MB)
Journal Articles
Mazet et al. 2009. A “One Health” Approach to Address Emerging Zoonoses: The HALI Project in Tanzania. PLoS Med 6(12): e1000190. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000190
Research Briefs
From 2005 to 2009, the HALI project was a proud sub-grantee of the Global Livestock Collaborative Research Support Program (GL-CRSP), a multi-disciplinary collaborative research program sponsoring projects focused on the themes of human nutrition, economic growth, environment, and policy and linked by a global theme of risk in a changing environment. As a GL-CRSP project, HALI benefited from the annual publication of GL-CRSP Research Briefs, short publications that distilled HALI’s scientific and capacity building research into a format accessible to an audience of policy makers, the donor community, and the general public. To date, HALI has produced 11 GL-CRSP Research Briefs, which are available for download through the GL-CRSP website.
2010 HALI Project Research Briefs
10-01-HALI: : New Medicine for Emerging Zoonoses: Reducing Disease Risk at Human-Animal Interfaces in Tanzania Using a One Health Approach
10-02-HALI: Integrating the Management of the Ruaha Landscape of Tanzania with Local Needs and Preferences
10-03-HALI: : Fecal Pathogen Pollution in Surface Waters of the Ruaha Ecosystem, Tanzania
10-04-HALI: : Public Health and Rural Livelihoods under Water Scarcity in the Ruaha Landscape, Tanzania
10-05-HALI: Calf Diarrhea and Public Health: Herd and Household Exposure to Cryptosporidium and Giardia in the Ruaha Landscape, Tanzania (coming soon)
2009 HALI Project Research Briefs
09-01-HALI: : Landscape Factors Associated with Livestock Disease Deaths in Idodi and Pawaga Divisions, Tanzania
09-02-HALI: : Building Human Capacity to Solve Ecosystem Health Challenges in Developing Countries
09-03-HALI: : Capturing Women’s Voices: Socioeconomics and Gender-Roles in Pastoralist Households in the Ruaha Landscape, Tanzania
2008 HALI Project Research Briefs
08-01-HALI: Evaluating and Managing Zoonotic Disease Risk in Rural Tanzania
08-02-HALI: The Unintended Consequences of Development Assistance: The Case of Usangu in Tanzania
08-03-HALI: Innovative Approaches to Evaluate Household Health and Livelihoods in Pastoral and Agropastoral Communities
Outreach Materials
From 2008 to 2009, HALI project master’s student David Wolking conducted a study on diarrheal disease in calves, and the risks of zoonotic transmission of diarrheagenic pathogens between calves and their caretakers, pastoral women and children. During the study, David identified a series of best practices to minimize diarrheagenic pathogen transmission, and prepared a creative outreach message for the study households using comics. The comics allow pastoralists with limited Kiswahili literacy access to important public health messages about keeping their calves and households healthy. You can access the outreach materials here in Kiswahili, or in English on David’s blog Point of Use Ruaha.
Healthy Animals for Healthy Households (Kiswahili) PDF download
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