Animal Health Protection
Protecting animal health through disease prevention, surveillance, diagnosis, treatment, vaccination, and veterinary services
Animal Health Protection Sector
Protects animal health through disease prevention, surveillance, diagnosis, treatment, vaccination, veterinary services, and supply of animal-health inputs to ensure food safety, increase farmer and pastoralist income, and strengthen the competitiveness of livestock products.
Animal Health Directorates
Key directorates under the Animal Health Protection Sector
Animal Health Protection Directorate
Animal Health ProgramsCoordinates animal health protection programs and veterinary disease-prevention activities. Coordinates animal health programs, coordinates vaccination campaigns, strengthens disease surveillance, coordinates veterinary services, monitors animal health conditions, prepares animal health reports, and coordinates responses to animal disease outbreaks.
Livestock Disease Prevention & Control
Disease Surveillance & ControlPrevents, detects, investigates, and controls livestock diseases. Conducts disease surveillance, investigates disease outbreaks, coordinates disease prevention campaigns, supports vaccination programs, coordinates disease-control measures, monitors disease trends, and prepares disease-control reports.
Animal Health Inputs Supply & Distribution
Vaccines, Medicines & SuppliesEnsures the availability, supply, distribution, and proper management of veterinary medicines, vaccines, diagnostic materials, and other animal-health inputs. Assesses animal-health input requirements, prepares veterinary input distribution plans, coordinates supply of vaccines and medicines, distributes animal-health inputs to service points, monitors stock levels, monitors utilization of veterinary inputs, and maintains animal-health input records.