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Title	Do vaccination interventions have effects? A study on how poultry vaccination interventions change smallholder farmer knowledge, attitudes, and practice in villages in Kenya and Tanzania
Author	Lindahl, Johanna F. Young, Jarrah Wyatt, Amanda Young, Mary Alders, Robyn Bagnol, Brigitte Kibaya, Augustino Grace, Delia
ORCID	http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1860-8041 Wyatt, Amanda
Publication Year	2019
Series Name	Tropical Animal Health and Production
Series Number	51(1)
Publisher	Springer
Language	English
Record Type	Journal article
Abstract	Poultry are important for many poor households in developing countries, but there are many constraints to poultry production, including disease. One of the most important diseases of chickens is Newcastle disease (ND). Even though there are effective vaccines against this disease available in most countries, uptake by small-scale poultry keepers is often low. In this study, two areas in Kenya and Tanzania were studied, where some villages had received additional support to get vaccination and other villages had not. In Kenya, 320 households from 10 villages were interviewed, of which half of the villages had active promotion of vaccination through village-based advisors. In Tanzania, 457 households were interviewed, of which 241 came from villages that have had active support through either a project or government extension services. Knowledge about vaccines and the attitudes towards vaccinating against ND was evaluated using mixed multivariable logistic models. Results indicate that in Kenya, the most important determinants for understanding the function of a vaccine were having had support in the village and to have knowledge about ND signs, while in Tanzania gender and previous vaccine use were important in addition to having had support. Attitudes towards vaccination were mainly determined by knowledge, where more knowledge about how vaccines work in general or about ND contributed to more positive attitudes. Among Kenyan farmers that had never used the vaccine before, the amount of birds they lost to disease and predators also influenced attitudes. In conclusion, this study supports the notion that knowledge is a very important component of extension support and that simply making vaccines available may not be sufficient for high levels of uptake.
Source Publication	Tropical Animal Health and Production 51(1): 213-220
DOI/WEB/URL	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-018-1679-3
DOI Number	10.1007/s11250-018-1679-3
Full citation	Lindahl, Johanna F.; Young, Jarrah; Wyatt, Amanda; Young, Mary; Alders, Robyn; Bagnol, Brigitte; Kibaya, Augustino; and Grace, Delia. 2019. Do vaccination interventions have effects? A study on how poultry vaccination interventions change smallholder farmer knowledge, attitudes, and practice in villages in Kenya and Tanzania. Tropical Animal Health and Production 51(1): 213-220. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-018-1679-3
IFPRI Descriptors	CRP4 DCA IFPRI3 ISI
IFPRI Division	A4NH
Peer Reviewed - PR or Non-PR	PR
Access Rights	Open Access
Subject - country location	KENYA TANZANIA EAST AFRICA AFRICA SOUTH OF SAHARA AFRICA
Subject - keywords	livestock chickens newcastle disease backyard farming poultry farming
Subject - author supplied keywords	livestock intervention
Physical description	8 pages
PDF URL - outside IFPRI	https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs11250-018-1679-3.pdf
Times cited-- Google Scholar	https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C9&q=%22Do+vaccination+interventions+have+effects%3F+A+study+on+how+poultry+vaccination+interventions+change+smallholder+farmer+knowledge%2C+attitudes%2C+and+practice+in+villages+in+Kenya+and+Tanzania%22&btnG=
IFPRI Publication Ranking	B
CGIAR Research Program	CGIAR Research Programs on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)
Requests	mailto:ifpri-library@cgiar.org
Creative Commons CC License	CC-BY-4.0
Funding	http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000972 Australian Agency for International Development Kyeema Foundation
Date created	2018-09-11
Date modified	2019-02-04
OCLC number	1053889690
CONTENTdm number	6346

Do vaccination interventions have effects? A study on how poultry vaccination interventions change smallholder farmer knowledge, attitudes, and practice in villages in Kenya and Tanzania

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