TY - JOUR AU - Schelling, Esther AU - Bechir, Mahamat AU - Ahmed, Mahamat Abdoulaye AU - Wyss, Kaspar AU - Randolph, Thomas F. AU - Zinsstag, Jakob T1 - Human and Animal Vaccination Delivery to Remote Nomadic Families, Chad T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2007 VL - 13 IS - 3 SP - 373 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Vaccination services for people and livestock often fail to achieve sufficient coverages in Africa’s remote rural settings because of financial, logistic, and service delivery constraints. In Chad from 2000 through 2005, we demonstrated the feasibility of combining vaccination programs for nomadic pastoralists and their livestock. Sharing of transport logistics and equipment between physicians and veterinarians reduced total costs. Joint delivery of human and animal health services is adapted to and highly valued by hard-to-reach pastoralists. In intervention zones, for the first time ≈10% of nomadic children (>1–11 months of age) were fully immunized annually and more children and women were vaccinated per day during joint vaccination rounds than during vaccination of persons only and not their livestock (130 vs. 100, p<0.001). By optimizing use of limited logistical and human resources, public health and veterinary services both become more effective, especially at the district level. KW - Vaccination delivery KW - children KW - women KW - livestock KW - remote rural zones KW - measles KW - polio KW - anthrax KW - synopsis KW - Chad DO - 10.3201/eid1303.060391 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/13/3/06-0391_article ER - End of Reference