| dc.description.abstract | A reliable disease surveillance system should detect changes in the health events whenever they occur. Such a system ought to be evaluated regularly to ensure it provides value information in an efficient. A total of 50 farmers were interviewed to evaluate the performance of livestock disease surveillance in Nangabo among the selected parishes, using the structured questionnaire. The stakeholders were interviewed by me in order to detect the presence of epidemics on the farm and initiate the control if they occurred. The surveillance system was perceived to be considerably representative, sensitive and acceptable, with the ability to generate data of good quality. Among the respondents I was able to find out the women were more than the men therefore farming is mostly practiced by them. Where the farmers report disease outbreaks on disease detection, they report more to the veterinary officer and a few to the village chiefs. The relationship between the socio demographic and where they report diseases, showed that the education level which showed a p-value of 0.023 which is less than 0.05 which was significant. To evaluate the effect of the type of intervention used in disease outbreaks on prevention which showed that treatment had a high value and the least is quarantine less adopted by the farmers. The average time between reporting and intervention used showed that the farmers visited the vet officer more compared to sending sms, telephone call and contacting members in the farmer association. The p-value of 0.390 which is higher than 0.05 therefore it was not significant. But I faced a problem of few vet officers in some parishes and little laboratory equipment used in the villages. The disease surveillance could be improved through equipping laboratories and providing more staffs, also educating farmers so as to improve on the quality of disease reporting. | en_US |
