Protecting Livestock – Saving Human Life
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GALVmed In 2007 only 34millionUSD went direct to the Livestock Sector out of 83billionUSD.
GALVmed Thinking "seven hundred million of the one billion people who live on less than $1 a day rely on their livestock as a lifeline..."
GALVmed Migrant workers are expected to send home a remarkable 290 billion USD in 2009 - essential income for people in Developing Countries.
GALVmed East Coast Fever (ECF) is a serious, often fatal, tick-borne parasitic disease of cattle that causes major economic losses in eastern, central and southern Africa. ECF kills over 1.1million cattle a year in Africa. In January 2009, Maasai Pastoralists from Northern Tanzania, Smallholder Dairy Owners from Kenya and a ...District Veterinary Officer from Kenya met with GALVmed in Arusha.
GALVmed Animal diseases devastate the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world. GALVmed and its partners are working to make livestock vaccines, diagnostics and medicines accessible, affordable and available to some of the world's poorest
GALVmed Only 4 per cent of International Development Aid goes to Agriculture.
GALVmed Nearly seven hundred million of the one billion people who live on less than $1 a day rely on their livestock as a lifeline.
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