School of Biosecurity, Ecosystem health and Veterinary Public Health, College of Veterinary Medicine Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, P.O Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda.
School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, P.O Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda.
BMC Infect Dis. 2021 Jul 9;21(1):669. doi: 10.1186/s12879-021-06337-8.
Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreaks have a significant impact on the health and wellbeing, and livelihoods of communities. EVD response interventions particularly affect the food value chain, and income security of pig farmers in agro-pastoral communities. Despite the enormous effort of EVD response interventions, there is paucity of information towards EVD among those involved in the pig value chain, as well as the effect of EVD outbreaks on the pig value chain. This study therefore, assessed the knowledge, perceptions on the occurrence of Ebola and its effects on the pig value chain in the agro-pastoral district of Luweero, Central Uganda.
A cross sectional study was conducted in two parishes of Ssambwe and Ngalonkulu, Luwero district. A total of 229 respondents were included in the study. Structured questionnaires, key informant interviews and focus group discussions were conducted to collect data. Quantitative data was analysed using SPSS version 22 while qualitative data was analysed using thematic content analysis.
Of the 229 respondents, 95.6% could recall the occurrence of the last EVD outbreak in their locality. About 24.5% associated EVD with touching pigs or eating pork. Regarding knowledge, 194 (84.7%) correctly associated EVD with handling Ebola infected persons, 191 (83.4%) with migration of people from endemic areas, 148 (64.9%) eating monkey meat, 127 (55.5%) with eating bats, and 198 (64.9%) with conducting public meetings where there is an Ebola infected person. Out of 142 farmers, 55 (38.7%) believed that Ebola outbreaks affected demand and sale of pigs. The EVD outbreak significantly led to a reduction in the average number of pigs sold (P = 0.001), the average number of pigs bought by traders (P = 0.04), and the number of pigs sold/ slaughtered by butcher men at pork eating places (P = 0.03).
This study showed that EVD outbreak negatively affected the pig value chain i.e., the demand and supply of pigs and pork. Therefore, there is need to sensitize the stakeholders in the pig value chain on EVD in order to minimize the negative economic impacts associated with EVD outbreaks.
埃博拉病毒病 (EVD) 疫情对社区的健康和福祉以及生计产生了重大影响。埃博拉病毒病应对干预措施尤其会影响农牧业社区的粮食价值链和养猪户的收入保障。尽管埃博拉病毒病应对干预措施付出了巨大努力，但参与猪肉价值链的人员对埃博拉病毒病的了解程度以及埃博拉病毒病疫情对猪肉价值链的影响程度仍然知之甚少。因此，本研究评估了乌干达中部卢韦罗区萨姆布韦和恩加隆库鲁两个教区的农牧业社区中，人们对埃博拉病毒病的发生及其对猪肉价值链影响的认识和看法。
本研究采用横断面研究方法，在卢韦罗区的两个教区萨姆布韦和恩加隆库鲁进行。共纳入 229 名受访者。采用结构式问卷、关键知情人访谈和焦点小组讨论收集数据。使用 SPSS 版本 22 对定量数据进行分析，使用主题内容分析对定性数据进行分析。
在 229 名受访者中，95.6%的人能够回忆起当地上次埃博拉病毒病疫情的发生。约 24.5%的人将埃博拉病毒病与触摸猪或食用猪肉联系起来。在知识方面，194 名（84.7%）受访者正确地将埃博拉病毒病与处理埃博拉病毒感染人员联系起来，191 名（83.4%）受访者将其与从疫区移民联系起来，148 名（64.9%）受访者将其与食用猴子肉联系起来，127 名（55.5%）受访者将其与食用蝙蝠联系起来，198 名（64.9%）受访者将其与有埃博拉病毒感染人员参加的公众会议联系起来。在 142 名农民中，55 名（38.7%）认为埃博拉病毒病疫情影响了猪的需求和销售。埃博拉病毒病疫情显著导致了农民平均销售猪数量的减少（P=0.001）、贸易商平均购买猪数量的减少（P=0.04）以及猪肉摊主平均屠宰和销售猪肉的数量减少（P=0.03）。
本研究表明，埃博拉病毒病疫情对猪肉价值链产生了负面影响，即猪和猪肉的需求和供应。因此，有必要向猪肉价值链的利益攸关方宣传埃博拉病毒病，以尽量减少与埃博拉病毒病疫情相关的负面经济影响。
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