Antibiotics governance in aquaculture: knowledge, practices, and challenges among stakeholders on the Volta Lake in Ghana

One Health Outlook, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 7(1)

Published: April 10, 2025

The use and misuse of antibiotics for treating animal human infections are a key driver the emergence resistant bacterial strains at human-animal-environment interface. This inappropriate threatens ecological balance poses significant risk to health. lack relevant knowledge right attitudes practices regarding antimicrobial stewardship among fish farmers, antibiotic drug retailers, government agencies has significantly exacerbated this serious environmental public health issue. To enhance understanding improve communication implementation sound in farming industry Ghana, study aimed assess knowledge, attitude, stakeholders cage aquaculture on Volta Lake Ghana. We conducted qualitative field survey involving interviews, informant discussions, observations. participants were veterinary retailers officials from fisheries, aquaculture, sectors gather insights about their attitudes, aquaculture. covered 40 respondents, comprising 18 12 general pharmaceutical shop operators, five Fisheries Commission officials, government-trained personnel operating along stratum II All quantitative data analysed using STATA thematic analysis. revealed that possess limited expertise, education farming. It was found sellers occasionally recommend treatment regimens farmers based observable symptoms associated with specific diseases. results further regulation selling drugs farmers. Government part, strive create awareness educate selection appropriate through routine quarterly inspections, thereby promoting best cultivating healthy fish. Despite this, indicate insufficient coordination between usage Volta. Regular joint training programs encouraged In addition, monitoring activities users, as well fostering effective all stakeholders, will aid reducing use, misuse, abuse Under One Health framework, efforts integrate other concern governance required address increasing burden Ghana world.

Language: Английский

‘IMPLEMENTATION OF BIO…WHAT?’ FARM WORKERS’ SUBJECTIVITIES IN SPANISH DAIRY CATTLE FARMS THROUGH AN ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACH

Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 235, P. 106407 - 106407

Published: Dec. 11, 2024

This study explores the implementation of biosecurity measures by farm workers through daily work routines on dairy cattle farms in Spain. The is mainly decided farmers and veterinarians, but it carried out both workers. However, may be affected socio-employment factors such as precariousness their that context dependent differ from official recommendations. An ethnographic approach was used observations conversations four two regions Spain, Galicia (north-west) Catalonia (north-east) to explore these factors. profiles participants were farmer-family workers, internal worker-employees external worker-employees. Results showed there social differences, particularly communicative hierarchical between influenced measures. Workers implemented practices incompletely, differently or incorrectly supervisors' instructions. also relied what authors called an anthropomorphic implementing measures, which deviated guidelines. In order improve farms, necessary consider key stakeholders biosecurity. Such consideration could help professionalise reduce turnover increase permanence farms.

Language: Английский

Capturing the complexity of veterinarians’ antibiotic prescribing practices in the livestock sector: a meta-ethnography across contexts

JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 6(6)

Published: Oct. 30, 2024

Strategies and policies to tackle the global public health threat of antimicrobial resistance are increasingly addressing use prescribing practices in both human animal sectors. Veterinarians' antibiotic influenced by different factors conditioned context within which decisions made, complexifying implementation behaviour change interventions. A better understanding these could therefore help design application such Meta-ethnography was used explore veterinarians contexts construct a new conceptual framework. search conducted PubMed, Web Science Core Collection SciELO Citation Index between 2016 2024. The final sample consisted 29 articles, 27 were selected from 561 articles identified 2 added authors. results synthesized presented through four contextual situations influencing livestock veterinarians: priorities pressures, uncertain field conditions, systemic challenges an enabling environment. as framework that views veterinarians' dynamic, adapting response they encounter. findings provide integrated contextualized behaviours, be implemented facilitate development future stewardship

Language: Английский