Resources

Using Outcome Mapping and Trials of Improved Practices to Identify Risk Factors and Develop Interventions that Reduce Risk of Zoonotic Spillover Infections

This STOP Spillover poster, presented at the 8th World One Health Congress 2024, describes the project's use of two unique participatory tools—Outcome Mapping and Trials of Improved Practices—to engage local stakeholders from the planning stage to designing, testing, and implementing interventions that are more sustainable.

Best Practices for Animal Value Chain Interventions to Reduce Zoonotic Disease Spillover Risks at Markets and Farms: The USAID STOP Spillover Approach

This STOP Spillover poster, presented at the 8th World One Health Congress 2024, describes six best practices for the design, implementation, and evaluation of animal value chain interventions at market and farm interfaces. The best practices were identified through qualitative data extraction of monitoring and evaluation data.

A Protocol for Evaluating Community-Level Zoonotic Disease Risk Reduction Interventions

This STOP Spillover poster, presented at the 8th World One Health Congress 2024, describes the project's approach to intervention validation, which was designed via stakeholder engagement and an iterative process across seven countries in South and Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa to address risks associated with wildlife farming, wild meat markets, and community-level biosafety interventions at various non-human animal-human interfaces.

Expanding Access to Wastewater Monitoring in Countries with Low Levels of Sanitation Infrastructure: Effectiveness of Active and Passive Wastewater Effluent Sampling in Côte d'Ivoire

This STOP Spillover poster, presented at the 8th World One Health Congress 2024, describes active and passive wastewater effluent sampling in three at-risk sites lacking sanitation infrastructure in Côte d'Ivoire.

Introduction of New Tools and Support for Biosafety Practices among Wild Meat Handlers and Processors in Côte d’Ivoire to Prevent Zoonotic Disease Risks

This STOP Spillover poster, presented at the 8th World One Health Congress 2024, describes the STOP Spillover Côte d'Ivoire Country Team's development of  guidelines and protocols for wild meat handling and processing, training in wild meat handling and processing for market and restaurant workers, and distribution of biosafety equipment.

Joint Risk Assessment of Ebola and Lassa Viruses at the Human-Wildlife Interface in the Tonkpi Region District des Montagnes

This STOP Spillover poster, presented at the 8th World One Health Congress 2024, summarizes a workshop that focused on assessing the risk for Ebola and Lassa virus infections in the Tonkpi Region of Côte d'Ivoire.

Mapping of Areas at High Risk of Zoonotic Pathogen Transmission and Disease Monitoring at the Human-Wildlife Interface in the District des Montagnes in Côte d’Ivoire

This STOP Spillover poster, presented at the 8th World One Health Congress 2024, describes the use of ArcGIS software to develop maps documenting the dynamics of ecosystem components at human-wildlife interaction zones with the potential for spillover of zoonotic pathogens.

A Conceptual Framework for Multisectoral Zoonotic Disease Surveillance Based on Human-Animal-Environment Interfaces in Côte d’Ivoire

This STOP Spillover poster, presented at the 8th World One Health Congress 2024, describes the convening of a multisectoral workshop on enhancing zoonotic disease surveillance at human-animal-environment interfaces at risk for spillover of zoonotic pathogens.

Efficient Wildlife Carcass Disposal Through the Development of Guidelines, Training, Reporting, and the Use of Biosafety Practices in Côte d'Ivoire

This STOP Spillover poster, presented at the 8th World One Health Congress 2024, summarizes the STOP Spillover Côte d'Ivoire Country Team's work to develop with stakeholders guidelines for wildlife carcass management, train government personnel in safe wildlife carcass disposal methods, and implement community engagement sessions on the risks associated with wildlife carcass consumption.

Impact Brief: Strengthening Surveillance and Monitoring the Risk of Zoonoses at the Human-Animal-Environment Interface

This brief summarizes a three-day workshop focusing on Identifying and identifying the status of ten key human-animal-environment interfaces, discussing a coordination framework for joint zoonotic disease risk assessment, developing a roadmap for collaboration in the surveillance and monitoring of zoonotic disease risks, and discussing STOP Spillover activities carried out over the previous twelve months.

Impact Brief: Training Workshop for Local Government Agents on the Management of Wildlife Carcasses in the District des Montagnes

This brief summarizes a training held in Man in the District des Montagnes in Côte d'Ivoire for agents from the Ministry of Animal and Fishery Resources and community leaders on appropriate wildlife carcass disposal techniques and biosecurity measures to prevent the spillover of pathogens from wild animals to humans.

Impact Brief: Waste Water and Waste Effluent Surveillance: Training in Sample Collection for Waste Water and Waste Effluent Surveillance

This brief describes training held for collection agents in Côte d'Ivoire to prepare them to collect waste water surveillance and liquid effluent surveillance samples for pathogenic monitoring.

Impact Brief: Training of Trainers for Wildlife Carcass Management and Community Engagement in the District des Montagnes

This brief focuses on a training of trainers held in Man in the District des Montagnes in Côte d'Ivoire. The training addressed methods of carcass disposal, decision criteria for managing wildlife carcasses, and biosafety and biosecurity precautions during carcass disposal.

Developing Guidelines and Training for Safe Handling and Processing of Wild Meat Using Biosafety Practices in Côte d'Ivoire

This STOP Spillover poster, presented at the June 2024 Global Health Security Conference, describes the Côte d'Ivoire Country Team's development of biosafety guidelines and training for those involved in the wild meat trade, which addressed issues such as hygiene in processing, waste management, sanitization, cleaning and disinfection and the proper use of PPE.

Impact Brief: Reducing Risk of Pathogen Spillover in Wild Meat Processing

This brief describes a two-day interactive training held for processors and workers who handle wild meat in markets and restaurants in the District des Montagnes in Côte d'Ivoire. The training focused on biosafety and hygiene measures to reduce harm related to zoonotic diseases in the meat value chain.

Interactive Mapping of Human-Wildlife Interfaces: A Report from STOP Spillover Côte d'Ivoire

This report summarizes the development of a spatial database of the levels of interaction between humans and wildlife in the District des Montagnes in Côte d'Ivoire, including the creation of an interactive platform for identifying areas of high human-wildlife interaction and potentially high zoonotic disease risk.

Impact Brief: Waste Water and Waste Effluent Surveillance: Initial Sampling and Results

This brief describes an initiative to conduct sampling of waste water and liquid waste effluent at high-risk sample collection points in Côte d’Ivoire. Some of the samples were found to be positive for SARS-CoV-2 or Influenza A viruses. The results demonstrate the utility and benefits of wastewater and liquid waste surveillance in low- and middle-income countries, in particular the use of  inexpensive passive samplers to obtain high-quality results.

Côte d’Ivoire Participatory Planning Using Outcome Mapping: Summary Report

Through outcome mapping (OM), a structured participatory tool that uses a collaborative context-specific process, spillover ecosystem stakeholders (both traditional and non-traditional) are empowered to identify and reduce zoonotic spillover risks at human-animal-environment interfaces and develop an outcome-oriented project action plan. This report outlines the details of the OM workshop activities in Côte d’Ivoire.