{"id":11,"date":"2020-05-23T10:38:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T10:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/cttbd\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2020-05-28T04:03:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T04:03:21","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cttbd.org\/en\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><font face=\"century gothic\">Our Background<\/font><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p align=\"justify\">The African Union Centre for Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases (CTTBD) was established by the African Union as a self-financing Trust to assist with the management of ticks and tick-borne diseases in the region. It is located in Lilongwe, Malawi, where its assets include office space, various animal facilities, laboratories and a vaccine production plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p align=\"justify\">In addition to vaccine production, CTTBD offers a range of complementary services and products including training in epidemiology and control techniques for tick-borne diseases(TBDs), production of quality assured vaccines, back up services to vaccines against TBDs, assistance in the investigation and control of tick-borne diseases. Initially, the Centre was called the Vaccine Production Centre (VPC) from 1994 but was renamed the Centre for Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases (CTTBD) in 2000. The facility has been in operation for more than 30 years, manufacturing and selling animal vaccines. CTTBD has unique resources and improved internal management, accounting and administration resources, including stock and accounting control systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p align=\"justify\">The African Union (AU) Centre for Ticks and Tick-borneDiseases (CTTBD)   was   established   in   Malawi   in   1978   following   a resolution  by  the  Council  of  Ministers  of  the  OAU  to  build regional centres for the control ofticks and tick-borne diseases. The   FAO   with   the   assistance   of   the   Governments   of   the Netherlands,  Denmark  and  Belgiumset  up  the  then Vaccine Production Centre (VPC)in 1994.In 1999  VPC  became  CTTBD  which  transformed  into  a  Trust  in 2001. Thetrustees include Directors of Veterinary Services from SADC  countries1,  and  representatives  from  AU-IBAR2  and  the SADC  Secretariat.  In  addition,  Kenya,  Ethiopia,  Rwanda,  Uganda and Burundi are co-opted during Board of Trustee Meetings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Background The African Union Centre for Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases (CTTBD) was established by the African Union as a self-financing Trust to assist with the management of ticks and tick-borne diseases in the region. It is located in Lilongwe, Malawi, where its assets include office space, various animal facilities, laboratories and a vaccine production [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cttbd.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cttbd.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cttbd.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cttbd.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cttbd.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.cttbd.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/www.cttbd.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cttbd.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}