The ERFAN Secretariat, in collaboration with the IT team, organises the online Information Day (ID) on “ERFAN website: Functions and Features”, to provide practical information, guidance and instructions for easy access to contents. During this online event, scheduled on 14...

The Secretariat is pleased to announce that Lesotho has joined the Network. The Central Veterinary Laboratory in Maseru becomes the 35th partner institution of ERFAN-Enhancing Research for Africa Network. The involvement of colleagues from Lesotho in ERFAN Working Groups...

ERFAN would like to wish you all a happy new year for you and your beloved families.

On 1 December, two professors from the University of Tripoli visited the Institute in Teramo to discuss ongoing and future scientific cooperation between the Libyan University and the IZS of Abruzzo and Molise, as part of the ERFAN network...

The WOAH Collaborating Centre on Training in Integrated Livestock and wildlife Health and Management, at the University of Pretoria, organised on 1 November, from 09.30 to 12.00, the Webinar on “Light microscopy as a tool to Anthrax Surveillance”. Light...

The Central Veterinary Laboratory and the Faculty of Veterinary Science in Windhoek and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) Collaborating Centre for Animal Production Food Safety in Teramo, Italy, organised the training course on "Detection of Listeria monocytogenes,...

As part of the BRUCELLOSIS 2022 INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE, the ERFAN-Enhancing Research for Africa Network meeting of the Working Group on Brucellosis took place in Giulianova, Italy, on 15 September. Representatives of diagnostic laboratories in Algeria, Ethiopia, Italy, Mozambique,...

On September 5, 2022, at the iniziative of the ERFAN Secretariat, His Excellency, Agostino PALESE, visited the Animal Health Institute in Sebeta. Tha aim was to strengthen collaboration between Italy and Ethiopia on diagnosis, surveillance and control of the...

The Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture invited the ERFAN to participate in the Conference "Coordination Meeting of the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Network (VETLAB Network)" held from 22 to 26 August 2022 at the Vienna...

From 26 to 29 July, the meetings on Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia and Anthrax took place at the Central Veterinary Research Institute (CVRI) in Lusaka. Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP) is one of the most important cross-border animal diseases. A regional approach...