Blog Archives: PREVENT Project

May 9, 2012-

USAID’s global project, PREVENT has worked with the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) on public affairs. April 17 – 20, 2012 we conducted a workshop for nine field epidemiologists and health communication officials from Angola and Mozambique. Workshop was held in Maputo.

First day all the workshop group from PREVENT is together in the same place – Fernando Garcia, David Zucker, Efua Orleans-Lindsay and Dee Bennett. We meet early to edit, re-order, rewrite, and translate presentation. This continued throughout the day and finalizedthe presentation’s materials, slides, and videos. More...

May 9, 2012-

Anton Schneider, Regional BCC Advisor for PREVENT, travelled to Sabah, Malaysia April 15-16 to visit the Sabah Wildlife Department in order to assist them in characterizing the human-wildlife interface and identify potentially risky behaviors that could allow transmission of zoonotic diseases from wildlife to people.

My first trip to Sabah since vacationing there 15 years before, I found Sabah to be just as beautiful as I remembered it. But unlike my vacation visit in 1997, this time I planned to meet with the Sabah Wildlife Department in the hopes we might assist them in characterizing the human-wildlife interface and identify potentially risky behaviors that could allow transmission of zoonotic diseases from wildlife to people.  More...

April 24, 2012 -

Le Thanh Hai, PREVENT's program coordinator in Vietnam, shares the snapshot of the field rice rat trade captured during rapid market mapping of district and commune markets in 11 provinces of the Mekong Delta Region.

The Mekong Delta Region is considered a hometown of rice field rats (Chuot Dong in Vietnamese). In the past, Chuot Dong meat was very cheap so there were few farmers who caught rats. But to-date, rat meat has become a special dish on the menu of many restaurants in the big cities of the Mekong. More...