The livestock-human-wildlife interface: Challenges in urban livestock production and extensive farming/conservation systems

The Conference will be jointly organised by the AITVM member institutions from South Africa and Belgium.

The Association of Institutions for Tropical Veterinary Medicine is a foundation of 24 veterinary faculties and livestock institutes based in Africa, Asia and Europe.

Prof. Koos Coetzer of the Faculty of Veterinary Science of the University of Pretoria (South Africa) will head the 'Conference Organising Committee' which will also include Dr. Eric Thijs and his team from the 'Institute of Tropical Medicine' in Antwerp, Belgium.

Venue: main campus of the University of Pretoria in Pretoria.

The aim of the AITVM 2013 Conference

A major concern in terms of animal health and production is the fact that, depending on the setting and the environment, the close association of people and domestic or wild animals represents an important risk factor for direct or indirect transmission of disease in man and animals. In turn, disease occurrence has an adverse effect on food safety and food security in general. The aim of the conference is to address the ‘One Health’ issues pertaining to a healthier environment in cities and rural areas.
 

New AITVM website

The start of the new AITVM website is www.aitvm.org. The website is now independent from the web pages of Utrecht University. The open source software of Joombla was used to build the site. Please have a look at the various pages like:

a. News, where you find news from the AITVM and its member institutions and the 14th AITVM Conference

b. List of representatives of the AITVM member institutions. Please check if your own details are correctly indicated on this page.

c. Information about each member institution of the AITVM. For each of the member institutes there is a page with a list of articles. I have prepared for each institute the article on ‘Contact information’. This page contains the information about your institution and about you as the representative to AITVM. Please have a close look at your page and check the links and let me know if it requires corrections or whether it is correct for this moment.