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Vaccination teams in Namibia trained on conducting effective mass dog vaccination data management
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A four-day training workshop on animal disease surveillance, disease outbreak investigation and response, and the rabies elimination programme was conducted successfully in Rundu, Namibia from 22-25 April 2025. A total of 42 newly recruited animal health technicians that joined the Directorate of Veterinary Services (DVS) of Namibia attended the training. The training aimed to build the capacity of newly recruited animal health staffs on the surveillance of transboundary animal diseases, conduct outbreak investigation and response and implement a One Health approach towards elimination of dog-mediated rabies in the Northern Communal Areas (NCA) of Namibia.
The participants were empowered on:
Group photo of the training participants. Picture (c) DVS (Namibia) 2025 ::: Photo de groupe des participants à la formation. Photo (c) DSV (Namibie) 2025
The participants were also provided with hands-on practical sessions on how to conduct proper history taking, clinical examination of animals, restraining animals, visual inspection of animals for any lesions/clinical signs for diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in cattle and Orf (virus) in goats, conducting mouthing of animal to find out any lesions in the mouth/tongue suspecting FMD, blood sampling, labelling, storage, packaging and submission of samples to the laboratory. The practical exercises were conducted at the Government farm in Mashare Training Center, Kavango East region.
