AT A GLANCE Project Information
Project Title: ADVANZ – Advocacy for the fight against Neglected Zoonotic Diseases
Project Objective: ADVANZ seeks to promote and advocate for improved surveillance and control of Neglected Zoonotic Diseases (NZD) in low-resource societies, with specific focus in Africa. ADVANZ aims at persuading decision makers and empower stakeholders at local, regional and international levels towards a coordinated fight against NZDs
A number of zoonotic diseases can be contracted through the consumption of contaminated meat, including anthrax, tuberculosis, brucellosis and cysticercosis. Artist: Joseph Kariuki ©Avia-GIS.
Project Duration and Timing: 2012-2015
Project Funding: FP7, The European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development
Project Partners: • University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
• University of Edinburgh (UEDIN) United Kingdom
• Avia-GIS (and subcontracting African SME) Belgium
• Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) Belgium
• Swiss Tropical Public Health Institute Switzerland
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Women are collecting water from a stream, with cattle and trees nearby. In many parts of Africa the trees and forest alongside streams are also home to tsetse flies. These flies carry parasites called trypanosomes, which can make both people and animals ill. Artist: Joseph Kariuki ©Avia-GIS.
category of stakeholders ranging from governments to the affected communities. The One Health Platform will help us to bring together all of the existing isolated networks into a united body where materials and experiences are shared by all.”
Creating a legacy Both Professors Mukaratirwa and Vang Johansen are keen to stress that far from being just a research project, the materials created by ADVANZ will remain as a useful set of tools that can bring about real change. “We have materials targeted at different stakeholders and ready to be disseminated,” says Mukaratirwa, “and the Pan-African platform will make sure that these materials reach them.” Improving
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awareness and knowledge of NZDs through a One Health approach has the potential to bring about a coordinated and informed drive against these diseases that could eventually wipe them out for good. Professor Vang Johansen believes that
opportunities still exist to improve upon the results achieved so far. “The ADVANZ project has compiled and made accessible evidence-based knowledge regarding these diseases, their burden and control options”, she explains. “The problem is that our systems are not built to allow collaboration between sectors. We need to break down barriers and create new ways of collaborating if the issue is to be properly tackled.”
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Maria Vang Johansen Professor in parasitic zoonoses at the Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. For the past 25 years she has been coordinating and participating in research projects addressing epidemiology and control of neglected helminth zoonoses (e.g. schistosomiasis, cysticercosis, foodborne zoonotic trematodes, opisthorchiasis and clonorchiasis), parasite ecology, anthelmintic treatment and resistance, and host/ parasite relationship
Contact: Tel: +45 3533 1438 Email:
mvj@sund.ku.dk Web:
http://www.advanz.org
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