Southern African Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine

The Southern African Society for Veterinary medicine and medicine (S.A.S.V.E.P.M.) was fashioned at the tip of 2000, with the target of promoting veterinary medicine and medicine within the Southern African region. one among the explanations for beginning a regional society was the realisation that we've got distinctive issues and circumstances in Africa that need U.S.A. to formulate a singular whole of medicine that may be applied within theregion. the most effective individuals to try and do this area unit the Africans themselves. For too long resources had been wasted on illness police work and management owing to an absence of understanding concerningmedicine or owing to the appliance of methodology that's inadequate for our region. Our biggest drawback wasthe shortage of capability within the discipline. we tend to so required a forum that may change those with someexperience, or associate interest, to cross fertilize experience and concepts, with the target of building capabilitywithin the region, however conjointly of making a singular methodology applicable to our region. The Societyconjointly aims to boost communication between epidemiologists within the region. With the weakness of the currencies within the region it's conjointly changing into more and more troublesome to attend conferences orcontinued education courses overseas; a regional society so permits native veterinarians to realize these goals ata reasonable price. SASVEPM currently features a multi-national membership of over two hundred, together withnon-public vets, state vets, vets in business et al. in domain and analysis. up to now the Society has commandtwelve Annual Congresses, that are a extremely productive mix of scientific papers, posters and continuededucation (CE) sessions. SASVEPM conjointly hosted the twelfth International conference for Veterinary medicineand social science (ISVEE XII) throughout August 2009 at the independent agency in urban center