Training Manual for Community Animal Health Workers

Summary: This manual was inspired by Brown’s Field manual of animal diseases by syndromes which was used during a community animal health workers (CAHWs) training in South Sudan to identify—in a participatory manner—existing livestock diseases in the region. The future CAHW were able to identify from the photos prevailing diseases, to describe their clinical signs, their seasonal occurrence and in many cases also post-mortem findings. The traditional terms for the diseases could be related to the scientific names. Other references are Lebrun’s Manual for community-based animal health workers and the four manuals by Oosterwijk et al. which all try to translate complicated messages into pictures.