03/02/2025
PROPCOM+ AMBUVETS LM-AHBDP PROJECT
Last-mile Animal Health Agents (LMAHAs) play a vital role in delivering timely, quality, and affordable healthcare to livestock producers, particularly smallholder farmers in underserved and hard-to-reach communities. These agents include veterinarians, veterinary paraprofessionals (VPPs), and community animal health workers (CAHWs), who provide crucial animal health services such as livestock disease vaccination, treatment, and advisory support to farmers. In addition, agrovet dealers also stock and distribute essential animal health inputs, including vaccines, veterinary drugs, and other products.
Although these LMAHAs possess the basic technical knowledge and skills to improve last-mile animal healthcare access, their potential is often constrained by inadequate access to veterinary equipment, tools, and resources necessary for effective service delivery. Some key challenges faced by these LMAHAs include the lack of cold chain facilities for storing and maintaining vaccines from procurement to administration, limited veterinary equipment for conducting basic procedures, and insufficient diagnostic tools and protective gear essential for providing efficient ambulatory services.
At AMBUVETS KONSULT LTD, we have observed that these challenges result to a rise in preventable livestock deaths, which impact the income, livelihoods, and resilience of smallholder farmers.
To mitigate these challenges, AMBUVETS KONSULT LTD is implementing the Last Mile Animal Health Business Development Project (LM-AHBDP) to support LMAHAs in Kaduna and Adamawa states. Using a market-driven model, we have enhanced the business capacity of 150 VPPs and CAHWs through veterinary equipment support including vaccine carriers, ambulatory kits, and digital information tools. This enables our LMAHAs to deliver vaccination, treatment, and other essential animal health services to livestock farmers at the last mile.
Stay tuned to our page at AMBUVETS KONSULT LTD to get updates form our LMAHAs at the farmer-level!.