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Preventing and Containing Trypanocide Resistance in the Cotton Zone of West Africa (2009)

Art

Vortrag

Autoren

Clausen, P-H

Bauer, B.

Zessin, K-H

Diall, O.

Bocoum, Z.

Sidibe, I.

Affognon, H.

Waibel, H.

Grace, D.

Randolph, T.

Kongress

10th Biennial Conference of the Society for the Tropical Veterinary Medicine

Lübeck, 29.06. – 03.07.2009

Quelle

Biennial Conference 2009, Theme: One Health, One Medicine: Building Bridge to Face the Challenge of Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases ; Abstracts — Julio V. Figueroa ... (Hrsg.)

Society for the Tropical Veterinary Medicine, 2009 — S. 55

Sprache

Englisch

Kontakt

Institut für Parasitologie und Tropenveterinärmedizin

Robert-von-Ostertag-Str. 7-13
14163 Berlin
+49 30 838 62310
parasitologie@vetmed.fu-berlin.de

Abstract / Zusammenfassung

Trypanocidal drugs are the most commonly purchased and used livestock input by resource-poor farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. In West Africa, these drugs are critical in protecting the 17 million head of cattle from trypanosomosis. The effective use of trypanocidal drugs by smallholder farmers is threatened by the development of widespread resistance. This is a particular concern for smallholder crop-livestock farmers in the cotton-zone of West Africa. A recent BMZ-funded project has confirmed significant resistance to trypanocidal drugs in villages with high trypanosomosis risk in Burkina Faso and Mali. Strategies for resistance prevention were investigated. Keeping trypanotolerant cattle was found to be an effective disease management strategy, but farmers? preference for trypano-susceptible breeds, for reasons unrelated to animal health, suggest the intromission of zebu genotype will continue. Community vector control was found to be effective in managing trypanosomosis in the presence of resistance and the high-level participatory approach tested was found to be more sustainable than the low-level approaches previously used in the region. This suggests that participatory vector control with appropriate external support is likely to be a viable option for implementing resistance ?clean-up?. Promoting Rational Drug Use (RDU) emerged as a promising prevention strategy, with clear improvements in farmer knowledge, farmer practice and animal health outcomes. However, policy studies showed low understanding of the problem of resistance and the absence of an enabling environment for RDU. Engagement was initiated with actors involved in the problem of resistance and for its solution, including manufacturers, sellers and users of drugs, regulators and extension providers.