Agents Communautaires de Santé Animale (ACSA)

Les ACSA sont des membres de la communauté rurale qui ont été formés pour fournir des soins de santé de base aux animaux. Indispensables, ils agissent souvent comme le premier point de contact pour les soins vétérinaires dans les régions où les vétérinaires professionnels sont peu nombreux ou absents. Grâce à leur formation, ils effectuent des vaccinations, des traitements antiparasitaires ou des premiers secours et prodiguent des conseils en matière de nutrition et de reproduction animale. 

Dans ces zones isolées, les ACSA sont essentiels pour maintenir le bétail en bonne santé, améliorant les moyens de subsistances des communautés rurales, leur sécurité alimentaire et leur résilience. Ils participent également à prévenir la propagation des maladies zoonotiques et jouent un rôle important dans l’éducation des éleveurs sur les pratiques d’élevage durable. 

Malgré leur rôle crucial, les ACSA font face à un certain nombre de défis significatifs. Le manque de reconnaissance légale dans certains pays peut limiter leur capacité à fournir des services et à obtenir des fournitures médicales essentielles. De plus, ils ont besoin d’un accès continu à la formation pour rester informés des dernières pratiques vétérinaires et des défis sanitaires émergents. 

---   Vétérinaires Sans Frontières International

  1. Best Practices in Livestock Projects

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  2. Agriculture Extension with Community-Level Workers: Lessons and Practices from Community Health and Community Animal Health Programs

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    04/11/2015 Active learning and exchange of knowledge are key to farmer adoption of beneficial agricultural innovations. Community health worker (CHW) and community animal health worker (CAHW) programs have led to a rich body of knowledge about extension, much of which is applicable to efforts aimed towards...
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  3. Handbook for Planning and Managing CAHW Programmes

    Vétérinaires Sans Frontières International (2024). Handbook for planning and managing CAHW programmes: How to build quality and sustainable community-based animal health services. Brussels, Belgium. In many countries around the world, Community Animal Health Workers (CAHWs) provide basic animal...

  4. Competency and Curriculum Guidelines for Community Animal Health Workers

    From the World Organisation for Animal Health The guidelines have been designed to be comprehensive and they aim to cover all the competencies that CAHWs may need over time. Therefore, when developing a training programme for CAHWs with the help of this document, users should first list the...

  5. Community Animal Health Worker Manual

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  6. Publications de la CVM

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  7. Where There is no Animal Doctor

    Dr. Maureen Birmingham and Dr. Peter Quesenberry,Revised Edition 2016 ISBN 978-1-886532-45-8 The idea for a book "Where There is No Vet" was conceived years ago. Work was officially started in 1985 by the late Dr. Bill Baker who worked as a veterinarian in Haiti for eight years. Dr. Baker...

  8. International Animal Health Consultants

    a. Training -IAHC encourages participatory training through which individuals are empowered to identify their challenges and then design and carry out their own solutions. b. Holistic -IAHC is committed to the development of individuals, and communities through the meeting of mental, social, and...

  9. Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards ( LEGS ) Handbook, 3rd Edition

    LEGS is underpinned by a livelihoods approach and is based on three livelihoods objectives: Providing immediate benefits to crisis-affected communities Protecting the livestock-related assets of crisis-affected communities Assisting the re-building of key assets among crisis-affected communities...

  10. Vétérinaires Sans Frontières International

    VSF International mets en place une approche globale, intégrant la santé humaine, la santé animale et la protection de l’environnement, et poursuit des objectifs humanitaires, scientifiques, de développement, de sensibilisation et de plaidoyer. Les membres de VSF International sont actifs dans...

  11. Participatory Epidemiology - A Guide for Trainers

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  12. LEGS Core Standards and Community-Based Animal Health Services

    20/01/2020 LEGS Briefing Paper This Briefing Paper considers how community-based animal health (CBAH) services that assist livestock owning communities can be better supported by implementing agencies, and draws on the lessons learnt from a LEGS Operational Research project funded by USAID/OFDA. The...
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  13. Des agents communautaires de santé animale soutiennent la production animale à petite échelle

    11/07/2016 Rédacteurs: ECHO abritera un atelier de trois joursen septembre sur notre campus de Floride, sur le thème d e l'élevage à petite échelle dans les régions tropicales (voir la section «Événements à venir» pour plus de détails). Notre Ferme mondial intègre de nombreux animaux, y compris des canards,...
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  14. Community-Based Animal Health Workers (CAHWs): Guardians for quality, localized animal health services in hard to reach livestock production systems.

    #SDGAction42636 In remote areas underserved by public or private qualified veterinarians, VSF trains members of hard to reach and at-risk communities in good husbandry practices and basic animal health care. These trained CAHWs are able to perform a limited range of veterinary tasks and...

  15. L’Organisation mondiale de la santé animale

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  16. World Organization for Animal Health eLearning

    In line with its mandate and to improve its capacity to strengthen Veterinary Services and , WOAH has reformed its training system and has created for this purpose its Global Platform for the Training of Veterinary Services. This Platform has been implemented to manage WOAH training activities...
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  17. Where There is no Animal Doctor

    Dr. Maureen Birmingham and Dr. Peter Quesenberry,Revised Edition 2016 ISBN 978-1-886532-45-8 The idea for a book "Where There is No Vet" was conceived years ago. Work was officially started in 1985 by the late Dr. Bill Baker who worked as a veterinarian in Haiti for eight years. Dr. Baker...