CaribVET

$4.4K USD

Funder	Department of Agriculture
Recipient Organization	U.S. Government - Department of Agriculture
Country	Caribbean Region
Start Date	Mar 28, 2012
End Date	May 20, 2017
Duration	1,879 days
Number of Grantees	2
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	US Foreign Aid
Grant ID	`250929-85`

Grant Description

The Caribbean animal health network (CaribVET) is a collaboration network among veterinary services, laboratories, research institutes and regional/international organizations to improve animal and veterinary public health in 25 countries and/or territories (English, Spanish and French speaking) of the Caribbean (Gongora et al., 2008).

Its specific objectives are to foster exchange of information and collaboration, promote a regional approach for emergency preparedness and diseases control especially for emerging and priority diseases, reinforce regional diagnostic capacities, and strengthen national epidemiological surveillance systems the CaribVET working group continues to developed tools to implement END and AI surveillance in the region: a regional protocol of surveillance and a diagnostic network for the Caribbean.

The meeting was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico.