{"id":1464,"date":"2025-06-04T12:54:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T12:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neurosolve.net\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2025-06-04T12:54:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T12:54:40","slug":"neurosolve-project-at-the-veterinary-association-of-zambia-annual-scientific-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neurosolve.net\/index.php\/2025\/06\/04\/neurosolve-project-at-the-veterinary-association-of-zambia-annual-scientific-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"NeuroSolve Project at the Veterinary Association of Zambia Annual Scientific Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 2025 Veterinary Association of Zambia Annual Scientific Conference was held in Livingstone, Zambia from 23<sup>rd<\/sup> to 25<sup>th<\/sup> April, 2025 under the theme <strong>\u201c<em>Animal Health takes a team<\/em>\u201d<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Zambian NeuroSolve Principal Investigator, Evans K. Mwape, gave a presentation titled \u201c<strong><em>The challenges and opportunities in the control of the pork tapeworm in Zambia<\/em><\/strong>\u201d (<strong>Picture 1<\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The presentation triggered a fruitful discussion on how to counter some of the challenges highlighted in the presentation. A notable submission was from a participant who highlighted how a non-governmental organization in the Western province of Zambia was training women groups on the best ways of keeping pigs in resource poor settings. The discussion emphasized the importance of a <em>One Health<\/em> approach at all levels for the control of not only the pork tapeworm, but also other neglected tropical parasitic diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/neurosolve.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neurosolve.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-2.png 624w, https:\/\/neurosolve.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-2-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Picture 1<\/strong>: Evans giving the presentation.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 Veterinary Association of Zambia Annual Scientific Conference was held in Livingstone, Zambia from 23rd to 25th April, 2025 under the theme \u201cAnimal Health &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neurosolve.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neurosolve.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neurosolve.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neurosolve.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neurosolve.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/neurosolve.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466,"href":"https:\/\/neurosolve.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neurosolve.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neurosolve.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neurosolve.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}