Ceva presents the value of Vet Education projects at the World Veterinary Congress

We followed up our work at the World Veterinary Association Congress in South Korea with a special feature for our clients, Ceva.

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The video featured Ceva’s contribution to improving the skills of young vets in developing countries of the world. In Bangladesh, as our film points out, this work can dramatically reduce the mortality rate in chickens being produced for food and so will contribute directly to the improvement of the economy of the country.

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The World Veterinary Association (WVA) has declared its support for Ceva’s avian pathology veterinary post-graduate training course, which is being organised in Dakha, Bangladesh, as part of a partnership agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The project could help to significantly reduce the mortality rate in poultry broilers in Bangladesh and improve the   profitability and welfare of the poultry industry in the country.
Ceva signed a collaborative tripartite agreement with the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University of Dhaka under the patronage of Her Excellency Mrs Sophie Aubert the former French ambassador to Bangladesh. ENVA, National Veterinary school of       Maisons Alfort is the third party involved in this agreement. Ceva and ENVA have already implemented a similar program in Myanmar which began in 2015.
The Bangladesh project involves establishing a training program to strengthen the autonomy of graduate veterinarians, and develop their operational capacity in field expertise in avian diseases and sanitary management. The training involves 30 participants on four week field oriented courses conducted by several international experts, The basics of poultry diseases and management are approached in a pragmatic manner, taking into consideration local production methods.
Ceva supported the Global Conference On Quality Assurance In Veterinary Education, which was held as part of the 33rd World Veterinary Congress, staged in Incheon, South Korea in August 2017. Guest speaker, Dr. Pierre-Marie Borne, Ceva’s Director of Public Health, Zoonoses and Food Safety, said: “Bangladesh is one of the key strategic countries for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and there is a lack of skilled vets in the area of avian disease. The current mortality rate in poultry broiler production in Bangladesh is currently between 10 and 15 per cent,” added Dr. Borne. “By improving sanitation through the better training of vets, the aim is to bring this down to five per cent.”
Speaking immediately after the Conference on Quality Assurance, Dr. René Carlson, WVA Immediate Past President, said: “Ceva has been extremely supportive of animal welfare as well as veterinary education and I think that their approach provides an opportunity for veterinarians around the world to take their basic competencies to advanced levels and really serve public health.”
In 2015, Ceva received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to roll out three targeted development projects corresponding to Ceva’s area of expertise and the foundation’s strategy to make smallholder livestock more productive, improve nutrition and empower women farmers. These projects include initiatives to boost health and production in the poultry and dairy sectors in Burkina Faso and Bangladesh over three years. Ceva is proud of its partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation which supports Ceva’s commitment to work together beyond animal health through feeding the world, tackling zoonoses and strengthening the human-animal bond.