Institutional collaboration to establish a sustainable basis for the development and transfer of appropriate methods to control important endemic parasitic diseases of livestock and zoonoses in the Southern African Development Community Region
(ref: 921300 )
Objectives
To strengthen the research and training capacity and capability of the DVTD and its regional partners to support the sustainable control of the main endemic parasitic diseases (trypanosomosis, tick-borne diseases and helminthosis) of livestock and important endemic zoonoses (tuberculosis, brucellosis, trypanosomosis and cysticercosis) in subsistence livestock production systems in the SADC Region
Activities/expected results
  1. Infrastructure established and strengthened, trained human resources available and activities managed to support regional collaborative quality research in the epidemiology and control/prevention of important endemic parasitic diseases and zoonoses in the SADC Region

  2. Understanding of the epidemiology of important endemic parasitic diseases and zoonoses in the SADC Region improved

  3. Impact of important endemic parasitic diseases and zoonoses in the SADC Region assessed

  4. Improved strategies for the control/prevention of important endemic parasitic diseases and zoonoses in the SADC Region developed

  5. Knowledge transfer facilitated through the further development and support of regional postgraduate training programmes and Continuing Professional Development modules

Progress
Start date - end date

1 jan 2008 - 31 dec 2010
Duration

36 months
Location(s)

South Africa , Southern Africa
Funding organisation

Directorate-General for Development Cooperation. Brussels, Belgium
Project funding

Total: 1.617.013,00 Euro (to ITM: 81.978,51 Euro)
ITM promoter

Van den Bossche Peter
Keywords

Zoonoses , Tick-borne diseases , Tropical veterinary medicine , Postgraduate students , Parasitology , Epidemiology , Tsetse flies , Livestock , Trypanosoma

Main contractor

Institute of Tropical Medicine . Antwerp , Belgium

Scientific collaborator(s): DORNY Pierre (Animal Health-Veterinary Helminthology); GEERTS Stanny (Animal Health-Veterinary Protozoology)

Partner 1

University of Pretoria . Pretoria , South Africa

Scientific collaborator(s): COETZER J.A.W. (Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases-)