One Health approach improves wild animal farming in Dong Nai, Vietnam

The Vietnam Agriculture newspaper reports on how One Health is being applied at local level in the farming of wild animals in Dong Nai province, Vietnam through improved coordination between the agriculture and health sectors.

A new intersectoral coordination protocol implemented by the Department of Health and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has connected the veterinary, forest protection and health sectors and the local governments to proactively prevent, detect and coordinate responses when disease outbreaks occur at wild animal breeding facilities in the province.

This application of One Health aligns with the goals of the CGIAR Initiative on One Health which aims to demonstrate how One Health principles and tools integrated into food systems can help reduce and contain zoonotic disease outbreaks, improve food and water safety and reduce antimicrobial resistance, benefiting human, animal and environmental health.

Photo: A civet farm in Dong Nai province, south Vietnam (credit: ILRI/Hung Nguyen)