Togo

Position : Associate professional officer (1997) Animal health and production officer in charge of the Togo-programme (1999).

• Design of a national animal trypanosomosis control programme for Togo;

  Implementation of a national animal trypanosomosis control programme for Togo;

  Protozoology (Trypanosoma) and entomology (Glossina);

  Design of a rapid appraisal system for bovine trypanosomosis based on epidemiological modelling and geographical information systems [GIS] ;

  Agro-veterinary cartography and GIS applications;

  Organisation and monitoring of vector control operations in priority areas (involving livebait-technology);

  Animal production & health statistics and cattle census;

  Zootechnical studies (trypanotolerant breeds);

  Socio-economic studies (acceptability of control methods, herd management, cost-recovery, marketing, profitability of private veterinary practice);

  Studies of trypanosomosis in small ruminants;

  Extension approach and training of extension workers;

  Active support and promotion of private rural veterinary practice.