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The Notice Board is designed to provide a section for use by WSAVA members and other veterinary related organizations having important information to share with the WSAVA and global veterinary community. Visit this page regularly to stay abreast of current news & announcements. WSAVA CE Meetings WSAVA World Congress in Dublin, Ireland August 20-24, 2008 WSAVA Meetings Provides a listing of scheduled WSAVA-sponsored CE events taking place in 2006 and 2007. Calendar of Global Veterinary CE Meetings The above link allows the reader to search a database of global veterinary CE events. WSAVA Member Association CE Meetings ____________________________________________ Other Congresses First International Symposium on Veterinary Hospice Care! Coming to UC Davis in March 2008! The Nikki Hospice Foundation for Pets (www.pethospice.org) and the Assisi International Animal Institute (www.assisianimals.org) are proud to sponsor the First International Symposium on Veterinary Hospice Care, to be held at the University of California at Davis, on March 28-30, 2008, at the School of Veterinary Medicine. This event (the first of its kind) is highly recommended for veterinarians, holistic veterinarians, veterinary technicians and students, clinical practice managers, hospice professionals and volunteers, nursing personnel and medical staff, psychologists, grief counselors, social workers, bereavement facilitators, death educators, animal health care workers, shelter and SPCA staff, animal communicators, pet massage therapists, and the general public. CEUs will be offered to LCSWs, MFTs, veterinarians and veterinary technicians. Please join world-renowned practitioners of veterinary hospice care, human hospice professionals, and other well-known experts as they come together to discuss a fascinating and emerging field that is quietly revolutionizing both human hospice care and veterinary medicine. To register and for further information, please visit: http://conferences.ucdavis.edu/ISVHC. ______________________________________________ European Veterinary Congress the Voorjaarsdagen 2008 International Congress on Companion Animal and Equine Medicine Venue: RAI-International Exhibition and Congress Centre, Amsterdam Contact: Voorjaarsdagen Congress Secretariat, Eurocongres Conference ______________________________________________ 29th World Veterinary Congress, July 27-31, 2008 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada _________________________________ British Veterinary Association (BVA) Congress 2008 - Vets in a changing environment 2nd FASAVA Congress - "A Drive for Asian Synergy" November 3-5, 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand First joint effort of WSAVA, TNAVC, and FASAVA For more information, contact the Congress organizers at alcharat@procongress.net _____________________________________ International Veterinary Opportunities ______________________________ Visakha SPCA has one of the most comprehensive animal shelters in India: dogs and cats, cattle and birds, and wildlife that was being illegally kept to be sold dead or alive. As if that wasn't enough work to do, we also have our ambitiously eco-friendly, 100% organic farming and renewable energy projects to run, plus our medical facilities for the animals! One of our most important projects is our animal birth control program (ABC) for dogs and cats. Recently, due to heightened publicity about dog bites, the public's tolerance for any trouble with the street dogs has gone way down. Consequently, Visakha SPCA wants to go full tilt to spay/neuter/vaccinate 10,000 street or community dogs: fewer dogs means fewer bites -- and fewer dogs put down. We need your help to accomplish this and to show the public that we can control the problem so the authorities don't have to start killing street dogs again en masse. Urgent call for veterinary volunteers For further info please contact: _____________________________________ British Veterinary Association Overseas Diary An update report on the BVA Overseas Group’s activities. Please note that the BVA has not approved or assessed any of the organisations or projects listed but we may be able to put you in touch with previous volunteers for background information and advice. It may also be helpful to know that the Overseas Group has produced a basic guidance note on working overseas as a volunteer which is available on the BVA website http://www.bva.co.uk/profession/overseas/worldwide/bva_guidance_for_volunteers.pdf or from helenac@bva.co.uk. __________________________________________________________________________ APPEAL FOR EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS The Education and Research Committee of Usmanu Danfodiyo University's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Sokoto, Nigeria requests donations and subscriptions of books, journals, publications, illustration posters and models, CD-ROMs, and other interactive learning materials. The committee's educational program would also welcome computers and laboratory/diagnostic materials from individual veterinarians, or veterinary associations, schools, or libraries that update their reference volumes. Please consider sending any requested materials that are being replaced to the Veterinary Library as the group would be delighted to receive them. Please address any correspondence in this regard to the program's coordinator, Dr. Aminu Shittu, c/o Department of Public Health and Animal Production, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, P.M.B 2254, Sokoto-Nigeria; phone, (234)-803-6857-519; Email: ameen_vet@yahoo.com. The above appeal for materials is more directed towards food animal veterinary medicine and focused on needly countries in Africa. WSAVA also coordinates the collection of educational material needed in other parts of the world with a focus on companion animal veterinary medicine. If any reader has materials they would like to donate, please contact the WSAVA Secretary at info@wsava.org.
Initiatives Focused on Rabies Reduction in Animals The Alliance for Rabies Control The Alliance for Rabies Control (ARC) www.rabiescontrol.org was created in 2006 to alleviate the burden of rabies across the world by promoting and implementing rabies control, prevention and education programmes whilst accounting for animal welfare and conservation issues. ARC is spear-heading the World Rabies Day Initiative for 2007.
The KAT Centre, whose mission is to create within the Kathmandu Valley a dog friendly, rabies-free, non-breeding street dog population through an Animal Birth Control (ABC) programme, would welcome veterinary volunteers. For further information please contact the Manager, Khageshwar Sharma katcentre@wlink.com.np or visit the website www.katcentre.org.np TOLFA’s Project Raja Volunteers Scheme Tree of Life for Animals’ Hospital and Shelter in Rajasthan, India runs a scheme aimed at veterinary surgeons, students and nurses. TOLFA aims to create a rabies-free environment through sterilisation and vaccination of the enormous stray dog population as well as providing rescue, medical and surgical care for other animals. ___________________________________________________________________ For those wishing to post infromation to this page, please contact Walt Ingwersen, the WSAVA website editor for further details at wjjc.ingwersen@sympatico.ca. |
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