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Call for articles: Animal Focus Magazine

Jan 22, 2020 | News, Opportunities

Call for articles: Animal Focus Magazine

CALL FOR ARTICLES

Animal Focus Magazine is a KVA publication that seeks to inform, educate and create awareness majorly to the general public on veterinary and related issues. The next issue will focus on role of the animal resource industry in the big 4 agenda and articles are welcome on this topic or vet and vet related issues. The magazine also creates a platform to advertise to more than 2000 readership. Deadline for submission of articles and advertisements is 5th February 2020.

CALL FOR ADVERTISEMENT

The Kenya Veterinary Association (KVA) requests you to place an advertisement in the KVA Animal Focus (AF) Magazine for your organization. AF is a quarterly publication that focuses majorly on animals (livestock/food animals, companion, wildlife and working animals) with a Vets perspective but communicated in a layman’s language to give correct, precise and factual information to these animal owners. It enjoys readership of more than 2000 persons per issue lead by Veterinarians and Para-veterinarians, then animal keepers and the general public. The Animal Focus has attracted a lot of attention in the animal resource industry since its inception in 2016. The next issue is expected in March 2020 and deadline for submission of articles and advertisements is 5th February 2020.

ANIMAL FOCUS MAGAZINE ADVERTISING RATE CARD

(Rates are inclusive of VAT)

 ADVERT SIZE COST (KShs)

  • Back Cover 125,000/=
  • Inside Front Cover 100,000/=
  • Inside Back Cover 100,000/=
  • Inside Full Page 80,000/=
  • Half Page 45,000/=
  • Quarter Page 25,000/=
  • Strip Advert 15,000/=
  • Bottom Banner Spread 15,000/=
  • Book Mark 10,000/=

 OTHER TECHNICAL INFORMATION

  • Magazine size A4
  • Print run 2000 copies
  • Print quality Full colour
  • Camera-ready artworks to be supplied by the advertiser.
  • Ready artworks to be supplied in Illustrator, PDF, Corel Draw or Photoshop.

Send articles and adverts to:

kvamagazine@gmail.com and copy to info@kenyavetassociation.com

For more information kindly contact KVA Office on 0727 680022

2nd Global Conference on One Health

Nov 1, 2016 | Archived events

2nd Global Conference on One Health

2nd GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON ONE HEALTH – Moving forward from One Health Concept to One Health Approach

November 10th-11th in Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.

Following the successful Global Conference on One Health (GCOH) that was held in Madrid in May 2015, the WVA and WMA in close collaboration with the Japan Medical Association (JMA) and the Japan Veterinary Medical Association (JVMA) are preparing the 2nd GCOH to be held on November 10th-11th in kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. 

The 2nd GCOH aims to bring together Veterinarians, Physicians, Students, Public Health Officers, Animal Health Officers, NGOs and other interested parties from the different world regions to learn, discuss and to address critical aspects of the ‘One Health’ Concept.

The main objectives of the conference are to strengthen the links and communications and to achieve closer collaboration between Physicians, Veterinarians and all appropriate stakeholders to improve the different aspects of health and welfare of humans, animals and the environment.

More details regarding the conference and registrations will be published soon on WVA and WMA websites

One Health Day: 3rd November 2016-University of Nairobi

Oct 22, 2016 | Blog, News

One Health Day: 3rd November 2016-University of Nairobi

ohdd_def_banners_3nov_720x300_cca18d27c9902One health resource center is a voluntary nongovernmental organization based in Kenya whose main objectives is creating a platform for collaboration among different professions to create awareness among the public in order to initiate a behavior change as a way of reducing risk of infection by emerging and infectious disease and solving other public health problems through a one health approach.

Recent disease events, like Ebola, MERS and Zika have underpinned the effects of zoonotic diseases on human and animals health. It is also clear that changes in the environment like climate change and population growth are drivers for diseases emergence and food insecurity, it is in this regard that the one health resource center together with other one health advocates and organization around the world will be hosting the 1st one health day on the 3rd of November 2016 at the University of Nairobi, Upper Kabete Campus as from 2-5pm to demonstrate the need for a collaborative approach in solving public health problems.

The one health day will be hosted in collaboration with the University of Nairobi One Health Student Organization.

The main activity of the day will start at 2pm where we will have a talk show featuring a multi disciplinary panel of scientist from different institutions to address major public health problems.

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Topics to be discussed:

One health and politics of Antimicrobial resistance, by Dr. Laura Kahn MD, MPH, MPP, FACP

Dr.  Kahn is a medical doctor and a research scholar with the program of science and global security at Princeton University USA.  She founded one health initiative and authored: “Who is in charge? Leadership during epidemics, bioterror attacks and other public health crises” 2009 and one health and the politics of antimicrobial resistance 2016

Climate change and emergence of infectious diseases, by Njenga Kariuki PHD

Dr. Kariuki is a veterinarian and a professor of Virology and global health at Paul G Allen school of Global animal health, Washington State University. He is also the head of one health and chief research officer at the Kenya medical Research Institute, Nairobi.

Zoonotic and emerging diseases and their impact at the household level, by Prof. Erustus Kangethe

Prof.  Kangethe is a Veterinarian and a professor of food safety, He teaches at the University of Nairobi, Department of Public health Pharmacology and toxicology. He is also a CO-PI with Zoolink and Urbanzoo research groups based in ILRI.

Food safety and security by Dr. Jasper Oloo

Dr.  Oloo is a food scientist based at the Agha Khan University hospital, Nairobi; He is currently the Manager Dietetics department at the hospital.

One health and its benefits in solving public health problems by Dr. Mwatondo Athman

Dr. Mwatondo is a medical doctor with a post graduate training in Public health; He is currently the head of Zoonotic Disease Unit in the Ministry Of Health GoK.

The role of media/ Journalism in a disease outbreak: The biography of the panelist will be availed once he confirms his availability.

The talk will be open to the public and they will be allowed to ask questions to the panelists.

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For more information send email to oneheathcenter@gmail.com  or call +25479810113

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