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Dear colleagues,
>My name is SABI yao sourou, a private extension veterinarian from Togo; I also hold a MPH degree. My area of emphasis is Infectious diseases and zoonoses, and Health communication. I am interested in PPR control because in developing countries, healthy livestock/short cycle animals/small ruminants are a reliable source of household income, food security & safety and poverty alleviation. All these factors are major health determinants and PPR does not favor them. This explains our engagement. 
>The objective of this intervention is to show how the private animal health sector can contribute to both vaccination and disease control/reporting thanks to collaboration with the Official veterinary services and NGOs.
>In the 1990s, PPR was a big issue facing the small ruminant sector in the northern Togo.  As a private veterinarian my contribution to solving that problem—as many other  animal health/production issues—led to a more active implication of the local communities by fostering the para veterinary practice. 
>By the time, I could set up a network of eighty (80) para vets in nearly 50 villages. Initially, I collaborated with NGOs and related projects to implement training on poultry issues such as vaccination and production. Gradually, as PPR vaccination campaigns were implemented on a yearly basis, related topics were added to the training package so as to shape trainees’ awareness about that staggering issue.  Following these trainings, individual work programs were developed with each participant to foster community adhesion. I always supported the local paravets through my presence in both sensitization and vaccination phases. Because the vaccinations were paid, we agreed on the principle of rebate (per vaccinated animals) to keep the paravet involved.  
>In parallel with their implication in PPR campaigns, the paravet were also active actors of the early warning system for animal disease surveillance at the community level.  One important way to keep them on-the-job was to provide each with a small amount of essential drugs, including tablets (dewormers, and vitamins) and insecticides. The money corresponding to this package was refundable and these drugs allowed them to have more access to the local livestock and therefore, more chance to interact with farmers and eventually detect sick animals. 
>The impact of these control measures can be seen on economic, social, and sanitary levels:
>Economically, impact is witnessed as the interventions contribute to curb losses to PPR so farmers can have more animals to sell as compared to similar periods of the year with the same farmer without similar measures. As a corollary, this fact positively affects households’ resilience. Socially, on the other hand, it is a fact that in developing countries, owning healthy livestock is a factor of social consideration.  Such a farmer becomes a role model, a social leader, the one likely to bring about specific innovations to the community. Sanitarily, finally, the weight of PPR within farmers’ livestock concerns has lessened by the time. Methodologically, these impacts were assessed using proportional piling to estimate animal/financial losses or financial earnings and the related achievements. Interviews, testimonies, and direct observations of the herd’s health status were also used during field. The impact on the side of the paravet could be
 easily assessed by comparing their seasonal/yearly turn overs and money earned. The variation of their socio-professional network is also another indicator of success. 
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>The win-win collaboration with the paravets appears to play a key role in the success of the PPR vaccination campaigns and other control efforts in my country.
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>Please, I am glad to contribute and I also look forward for additional interactions.
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>Best
> Sabi
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>Sabi Y. SOUROU
>DVM (Agric Academy of Ukraine, former URSS)
>MPH (Kansas State University, USA)
>Certificate in Initial Acredit. Training (IAT) for the USDA National  Veterinary Acredition Program (KSU)
>Certificate in Leadership Development Program (Cornell University, USA)
>Certificate in Agric Economics & Dvpt (Cornell University, USA) 
> Mobile: USA: +1 (785) 323-7630
>TOGO: (+228)9005.44.76
>Office:(+228) 2770.82.83
>Home: (228) 2770.85.08
>BP: 172 Dapaong-Togo
>email: [log in to unmask]
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>skype: sourousabi1
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