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Table 3 Examples of a One Health approach in pastoral areas in the GHA (Griffith et al. 2020; Kamadjeu et al. 2015; Lankester et al. 2019; Mtui-Malamsha et al. 2020; Musoke et al. 2016; Ndejjo et al. 2019; Onyango et al. 2019; United Nations Environment Programme and International Livestock Research Institute 2020)

From: COVID-19 in pastoral contexts in the greater Horn of Africa: Implications and recommendations

Institutions/developmentpartners

Team composition

Location

Activities

Ministry of Health, Ministry of Livestock, United Nations Children’s Fund, WHO, and FAO

Human and animal health, community elders

Somalia

Joint human and animal vaccination

Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries and Ministry of Health

Zoonotic Disease Unit, County One Health Units

Kenya

Active collaboration at the animal, human, and ecosystem interfaces towards better prevention and control of zoonotic diseases

Afya Timiza, Amref Health Africa-Kenya, and Turkana County Government (Ministry of Health and Sanitation; Ministry of Agriculture, Pastoral Economy, and Fisheries)

Kimormor programme: human and animal health, public and emergency services

Kenya

Health services (e.g. child vaccination), National Health Insurance Fund/livestock-based insurance, birth registration, financial services, food distribution, veterinary/agriculture

District Medical Office and District Veterinary Office

Human and animal health

Tanzania

Soil-transmitted helminths and canine rabies prevention and control activities

One Health Coordination Desk (Office of the Prime Minister); Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries; Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children; FAO; and Sokoine University of Agriculture

One Health rapid response teams: human and animal health, environment, wildlife, disaster management

Tanzania

Disease outbreak investigations, field investigations and interventions (e.g. rabies and anthrax in humans and animals)

Vétérinaires Sans Frontières - Suisse, International Livestock Research Institute, Medical Collaboration Committee, national governments

HEAL Project: One Health for Humans Environment Animals and Livelihoods

Southern Ethiopia, northern Kenya, and Somalia

Establishment of One Health Units for the integration of human health, animal health, and rangeland management service provision

Ministry of Health – Uganda; Commissioner Environmental Health, regulated by Allied Health Professionals Council

Environmental health practitioners

Uganda

Inspecting livestock before slaughter as well as the meat in slaughterhouses and butcheries; monitoring the destruction of condemned meat; investigating zoonotic disease outbreaks and monitoring disease control programmes; ensuring the control of disease vectors and vermin; providing communities with health education on pertinent issues; food safety; helping to enforce Uganda’s public health legislation