Barriers to vaccine use in small ruminants and poultry in Tanzania
Vaccination is an important disease prevention and control measure; however, vaccine adoption by livestock farmers in Tanzania is still low. This cross-sectional study examined the challenges to vaccine use faced by livestock owners and animal health professionals (AHPs) in Tanzania. A questionnaire...
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| author | Sitira Williams Isabella Endacott Abel B. Ekiri Mirende Kichuki Mariana Dineva Erika Galipo Vadim Alexeenko Ruth Alafiatayo Erik Mijten Gabriel Varga Alasdair J.C. Cook |
| author_facet | Sitira Williams Isabella Endacott Abel B. Ekiri Mirende Kichuki Mariana Dineva Erika Galipo Vadim Alexeenko Ruth Alafiatayo Erik Mijten Gabriel Varga Alasdair J.C. Cook |
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| description | Vaccination is an important disease prevention and control measure; however, vaccine adoption by livestock farmers in Tanzania is still low. This cross-sectional study examined the challenges to vaccine use faced by livestock owners and animal health professionals (AHPs) in Tanzania. A questionnaire was administered to 216 households that kept small ruminants and poultry and 19 AHPs’ data were collected electronically via the survey platform Qualtrics, and descriptive statistics were performed. Households with poultry reported vaccinating mostly against Newcastle disease (91.7%), fowl pox (48.1%) and Gumboro disease (37.0%), whilst households with small ruminants reported contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (62.2%), sheep and goat pox (17.1%), foot-and-mouth disease (7.3%) and peste des petits ruminants (7.3%). The households’ decision to vaccinate was mostly influenced by knowledge of diseases (82.4%), disease history on the farm (69.4%) and vaccine price (63.4%). Most households (54.6%) experienced challenges when purchasing vaccines, including high vaccine cost (78.0%), long distance from vaccine source (61.0%) and vaccine unavailability (21.2%). The findings suggest that improving the knowledge of livestock owners regarding the priority diseases and the benefits of vaccination, establishing more vaccine suppliers, improving vaccine distribution and access and training AHPs and households on appropriate vaccine storage and handling are necessary to improve vaccine adoption and ensure vaccine quality and effectiveness. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cc7f5942c877447da6d7bcf910ccfe462022-12-22T03:46:51ZengAOSISOnderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research0030-24652219-06352022-08-0189110.4102/ojvr.v89i1.2007680Barriers to vaccine use in small ruminants and poultry in TanzaniaSitira Williams0Isabella Endacott1Abel B. Ekiri2Mirende Kichuki3Mariana Dineva4Erika Galipo5Vadim Alexeenko6Ruth Alafiatayo7Erik Mijten8Gabriel Varga9Alasdair J.C. Cook10Department of Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, GuildfordDepartment of Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, GuildfordDepartment of Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, GuildfordCollege of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, TanzaniaDepartment of Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, GuildfordDepartment of Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, GuildfordDepartment of Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, GuildfordDepartment of Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, GuildfordZoetis, ZaventemZoetis, ZaventemDepartment of Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, GuildfordVaccination is an important disease prevention and control measure; however, vaccine adoption by livestock farmers in Tanzania is still low. This cross-sectional study examined the challenges to vaccine use faced by livestock owners and animal health professionals (AHPs) in Tanzania. A questionnaire was administered to 216 households that kept small ruminants and poultry and 19 AHPs’ data were collected electronically via the survey platform Qualtrics, and descriptive statistics were performed. Households with poultry reported vaccinating mostly against Newcastle disease (91.7%), fowl pox (48.1%) and Gumboro disease (37.0%), whilst households with small ruminants reported contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (62.2%), sheep and goat pox (17.1%), foot-and-mouth disease (7.3%) and peste des petits ruminants (7.3%). The households’ decision to vaccinate was mostly influenced by knowledge of diseases (82.4%), disease history on the farm (69.4%) and vaccine price (63.4%). Most households (54.6%) experienced challenges when purchasing vaccines, including high vaccine cost (78.0%), long distance from vaccine source (61.0%) and vaccine unavailability (21.2%). The findings suggest that improving the knowledge of livestock owners regarding the priority diseases and the benefits of vaccination, establishing more vaccine suppliers, improving vaccine distribution and access and training AHPs and households on appropriate vaccine storage and handling are necessary to improve vaccine adoption and ensure vaccine quality and effectiveness.https://ojvr.org/index.php/ojvr/article/view/2007vaccinesmall ruminantgoatsheeppoultrychallengestanzaniaafrica |
| spellingShingle | Sitira Williams Isabella Endacott Abel B. Ekiri Mirende Kichuki Mariana Dineva Erika Galipo Vadim Alexeenko Ruth Alafiatayo Erik Mijten Gabriel Varga Alasdair J.C. Cook Barriers to vaccine use in small ruminants and poultry in Tanzania Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research vaccine small ruminant goat sheep poultry challenges tanzania africa |
| title | Barriers to vaccine use in small ruminants and poultry in Tanzania |
| title_full | Barriers to vaccine use in small ruminants and poultry in Tanzania |
| title_fullStr | Barriers to vaccine use in small ruminants and poultry in Tanzania |
| title_full_unstemmed | Barriers to vaccine use in small ruminants and poultry in Tanzania |
| title_short | Barriers to vaccine use in small ruminants and poultry in Tanzania |
| title_sort | barriers to vaccine use in small ruminants and poultry in tanzania |
| topic | vaccine small ruminant goat sheep poultry challenges tanzania africa |
| url | https://ojvr.org/index.php/ojvr/article/view/2007 |
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