Evaluation of Animal health care delivery systems in west Pokot and Turkana Districts of Kenya.

Abstract

The study determined , described and assessed the animal health care delivery systems in Turkana and Pokot Districts, with the main goal being to provide the necessary information to inform the strengthening of animal health service delivery systems and subsequently upgrade and revitalize the existing disease control system to acceptable standards for the control of economically important livestock diseases. The study recommends policy, regulatory and institutional interventions that are essential if problems related to animal health service delivery in pastoral household livestock-dependent incomes in the arid and semi-arid lands in Kenya are to be sustainably addressed.