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Choose Prevention: Embrace a Healthier Future with Less Meat

While it’s true that many African countries already consume less or no meat compared to developed nations, it remains crucial to steadfastly promote the benefits of a preventative approach—#EatingLessMeat.

Untangling antimicrobial resistance – the legacy of an unhealthy development model

development banks must stop funding factory farming, instead, they should support and help expand truly sustainable farming projects with a focus on plant-based proteins and high animal welfare, that takes into account the needs of animals, local communities and the environment

6th IPCC report: Human activities are pushing planet earth beyond its limits

On 9th August 2021, the IPCC (intergovernmental panel on climate change) released their sixth assessment report which consists of contributions from each of the three IPCC Working Groups and a Synthesis Report, which integrates the Working Group contributions and the...

Report says major supermarkets in Kenya selling superbug laden meat

Kenyan consumers could be eating contaminated meat from the country’s major supermarkets. This is according to a study by World Animal Protection which is challenging stakeholders to improve animal welfare and ensure responsible use of antibiotics to reverse the trend.

A Global Analysis of Antimicrobial Resistance and its Drivers for the year 2021

The State of the World’s Antibiotics 2021 report by Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP), on the state of antibiotics introduces country dashboards that capture progress on indicators that track AMR and show what remains to be done to decrease the need for antibiotics and their inappropriate use.

Food system transformation in support of nature – Chatham research report

Demand is a key lever that unlocks different options for farming practices and sparing land for nature (i.e. driving demand for economic growth drives intensification and makes it more difficult to both preserve natural land and farm sustainably)

Status of battery cage farming in Kenya

An assessment by the Africa Network for Animal Welfare (ANAW) on the adoption of battery cages as a means of poultry production in Kenya revealed that their use is increasingly gaining popularity among small-scale peri-urban and urban farmers.

Riyadh G20 Leaders Declaration

Leaders of the G20, on Sunday 22nd November 2020 asserted that they will: continue tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and zoonotic diseases based on the One-Health approach

UNEP joins three international organizations in expert panel to improve One Health

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), as well as a number of key international experts, have agreed to set up a One Health High-Level Expert Council to collect, distribute and publicize reliable scientific information on the links between human, animal and environmental health.

Kenya national antimicrobial stewardship guidelines for healthcare settings

The purpose of this guideline is to give direction to health care workers on how to establish and run AMS programmes in health care settings and the community at large.

Farm animal welfare concerns during Covid-19 pandemic

Farm animal welfare concerns during Covid-19 pandemic

At present, there is no known risk of transmission of COVID-19 (ie. SARS-COV2 virus) from livestock to humans and no direct COVID-19 infection risk with consumption of animal products, noting general food hygiene should prevail. The World organisation for Animal (OIE) recommends that production and consumption of animal products can continue as usual, following routine sanitary precautions.

Support to COVID-19 response in Kenya by FELTP trained veterinary epidemiologists

Support to COVID-19 response in Kenya by FELTP trained veterinary epidemiologists

Since 2009, the Kenya Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (K-FELTP) division in the Ministry of Health has been training national and county level officers from the Directorate of Veterinary Services in Field Epidemiology. To date at-least 30 veterinary officers have been trained in advanced level epidemiology under FELTP and more than 50 have been trained in basic epidemiology competences at county level.

Covid-19 and Veterinary Services in Kenya

Covid-19 and Veterinary Services in Kenya

The first case of Coronavirus disease, COVID-19, was confirmed in Kenya on 12th March 2020. Since then, the COVID-19 National Emergency Response Committee, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives and various county governments have issued guidelines on public and individual behaviour to manage the disease.

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