First Working Group Meeting in Southern Africa

The 64 participants from 13 African Institutions and 5 Italian Experimental Zooprophylactic Institutes met in 6 working groups to plan actions aimed at improving research, diagnostic performance and scientific training on food hygiene, animal welfare and diseases – also transmissible to humans – such as bovine tuberculosis, brucellosis, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, transmissible spongiform encephalopathies and Rift Valley Fever. At the end of the meeting, the action plans of the working groups for the biennium 2019-2021 were presented in accordance with the three pillars of ERFAN: the improvement of diagnostic performance through networking activities, training linked to the transfer of technical-scientific innovations and the presentation of project proposals of regional value.