Resources

Impact Brief: Implementing TIP 3: Improved Healthcare Disease Control and Disease Surveillance for Farmed Wildlife

This brief summarizes implementation of a TIP (Trial of Improved Practices) related to improving biosecurity through healthcare disease control and disease surveillance in wildlife farms in Viet Nam. Following training, households that farmed civets, bamboo rats, porcupines, and Sambar deer farms in three districts committed to pilot biosecurity measures in animal husbandry, health monitoring, and disease prevention and treatment.

Impact Brief: Internews Media Grants

This brief summarizes trainings held to build the capacity of journalists in Côte d'Ivoire, Bangladesh, and Sierra Leone to understand and report about zoonotic diseases and One Health with accuracy.

Impact Brief: Lassa Food Storage and Community Hygiene Interventions

This brief describes the testing of improved grain storage techniques and hygiene and waste management systems to reduce rodent-human contact and Lassa virus spillover risks in three communities in Sierra Leone.

Impact Brief: Lassa Virus Risk Behavior and Exposure Study

This brief summarizes a Lassa virus risk behavior and exposure study conducted in 12 communities to increase understanding of knowledge related to Lassa virus, farming and hunting activities, food and water storage practices, health-seeking behaviors, traditional practices, beliefs, and environmental and sanitation conditions at the household and community level. The study included focus group discussions, key informant interviews, household observations, and community observations.

Impact Brief: Phase 2 Evaluation of the Community-based Bat Monitoring Program in Bundibugyo District, Uganda

This brief describes a community-based bat-human interface monitoring program to improve understanding of the risk factors for potential spillover and to develop interventions to reduce human exposure to bats, which would reduce spillover risk.

Impact Brief: Sampling Food and Household Surfaces to Assess Lassa Virus Transmission Risk

This brief describes an activity to gather food and surface samples from 30 households in six communities in Liberia. The samples underwent laboratory analysis, enabling the identification of potential pathogens (including testing for Lassa virus RNA). This information is critical to the design of interventions to reduce the risk of spillover from rodents to humans.

Impact Brief: STOP Spillover Team and Kenema District Stakeholders Commemorate One Health Day 2023 with a Drawing Competition for Secondary School Children

This brief describes a collaborative effort by the STOP Spillover Sierra Leone Country Team and the Kenema District Health Management Team to commemorate One Health Day. The activity featured a One Health drawing competition among ten senior secondary schools to sensitize young people to zoonotic diseases and One Health.

Impact Brief: Testing and Validating Techniques to Improve the Adoption of Biosafety Practices at the Wildlife Farming Interface

This brief summarizes three TIPS (Trials of Improved Practices) that were implemented in Dong Nai province in Vietnam to prevent the spread of zoonotic diseases from wildlife by improving  biosecurity and waste management practices in captive wildlife facilities.

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.

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: Preventive Healthcare, Treatment, and Management of Common Diseases in Targeted Wildlife

This brief summarizes three training courses on preventive wildlife healthcare, treatment, and the management of common diseases in targeted wildlife that were held for veterinary staff, community health workers, and farmers in Dong Nai province, Viet Nam.

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: 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: STOP Spillover at AFROHUN Fourth International One Health Conference

This brief describes presentations and posters shared by the STOP Spillover Project Director and Country Team Leads from Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Viet Nam during AFROHUN's Fourth International One Health Conference held in Nairobi, Kenya in April 2024.

Impact Brief: Using PPE in Raising and Taking Care of Wildlife

This brief describes implementation of a TIP (Trial of Improved Practices) for Sambar deer farming and its replication in bamboo rat, civet, and porcupine farming. The TIP involved using personal protective equipment (e.g., protective clothing, face masks, gloves, boots) during farming activities.

Waste Treatment Interventions to Minimize the Risk of Zoonotic Disease Transmission in Wildlife Farms

This video describes the STOP Spillover Viet Nam Country Team's work with partners and wildlife farmers in Dong Nai province to implement waste treatment interventions to reduce the risk of zoonotic disease transmission in wildlife farms.

An Exploration of Factors Contributing to Failure and Success of Previous Interventions to Improve Biosecurity and Biosafety in Live Bird Markets of Bangladesh

This STOP Spillover poster, presented at the June 2024 Global Health Security Conference, summarizes the Bangladesh Country Team's research on factors associated with the outcomes of earlier biosafety interventions in live bird markets in Dhaka.

Development of Biosecurity and Biosafety-Informed Design Principles for Physical Infrastructures of Live Bird Markets of Dhaka City, Bangladesh

This STOP Spillover poster, presented at the June 2024 Global Health Security Conference, describes the Bangladesh Country Team's infrastructure designs for single and multiple-shop live bird markets based on biosafety and quality standards.

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.

Understanding and Mitigating Zoonotic Spillover Risks in the Wildmeat Value Chain in Sierra Leone

This STOP Spillover poster, presented at the June 2024 Global Health Security Conference, describes the Sierra Leone Country Team's study of the wildmeat trade in a high-risk interface in Eastern Sierra Leone, which found that the main drivers of wildmeat hunting, sale, and consumption are food, medicine, economics, and cultural factors.