Submitter: National Livestock Resources Research Institute, National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO), based in Tororo, Uganda.
Subcontractor: Same as above.
Priority area: Food and agriculture.
Participating/beneficiary countries: 3 countries (Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan and Uganda).
PGTF input: US$ 30,000.
Other inputs: US$ 49,121.
Number: INT/18/K15.
Duration: Eighteen (18) months.
Approval: 41st Annual Ministerial Meeting of the Group of 77 (New York, 22 September 2017).
Completion: Final report submitted on 14 July 2022.
Impact: The project gathered evidence for informing viable control strategies in goats, sheep, cattle and humans. In this context, project activities included isolating and characterizing the infecting Brucellae species in goats, sheep, cattle, humans and wildlife within Bwindi-Mgahinga, Queen Elizabeth, and Murchison Falls conservation areas in Uganda, Parc National des Virunga (Democratic Republic of the Congo) and Nimule wildlife conservation area, South Sudan, as well as increasing public awareness of animal and human brucellosis and the ways of preventing this disease in both animals and humans and improving the diagnostic capacities and awareness by health practitioners about brucellosis in domestic ruminants, wildlife and humans in the participating countries.

Final Report:

• INT-18-K15-FinalReport.pdf  *  [Language: English; Size: 7112KB]




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