Delivery of the Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP) vaccine in northeastern Kenya

To answer questions on the delivery of the Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP) vaccine in northeastern Kenya, a gendered socioeconomic analysis of vaccine delivery was conducted.Qualitative and quantitative data were collected from men and women cattle owners, chiefs, veterinarians and veterinary paraprofessionals in Ijara subcounty, and a vaccine manufacturer representative in Nairobi.Results indicate that a private public vaccine delivery hybrid model exists.Most cattle owning households purchase vaccine and veterinary paraprofessionals vaccinate their cattle because there is a shortage of veterinarians in the region.Vaccine purchase from manufacturer is restricted by the government enforced requirement that only a government veterinarian or their representative can purchase.The road infrastructure in northeastern Kenya is very poor and the vaccine, which requires refrigeration, is transported to the field in vaccine carriers containing icepacks and by public means of transport.Often, the duration of vaccine in transit necessitates the changing of ice packs, which may compromise the already low efficacy of the vaccine.The study also tested the adoption rates of vaccine by men and women cattle owners by determining their willingness to pay for a hypothetical (safe, efficacious, thermostable and commercially available) vaccine using the bidding game contingent valuation method.Men are willing to pay significantly more money, because they owned higher cattle wealth, than women.The variables gender, number of adults in the household and owning cattle jointly, have significant influence on the willingness to pay, and hence vaccine adoption.