The purpose of this study was to categorise and prioritise livestock diseases in Tanzania so as to enable developing action oriented strategic plans for prevention and control interventions in a more economic, effective and efficient use of limited resources available. This study adopted a Phylum disease prioritisation tool developed by OIE.A structured analytical tool was administered to a list of 15 identified diseases based on epidemiological reports found in the Director ofVeterinary Services office in the country. The later was followed by putting scores as provided in the tool and the result of which was the prioritised list of diseases which were ranked accordingly in terms of their economic, public health, and control impacts .The results ofthis study indicate that seven out of the 15 diseases identified are of economic and public health importance and these includes in order of priority Rift Valley Fever; Foot and Mouth Disease (circulating serotypes); Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia ,Newcasde Disease; Pest des Petit Ruminants, Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (Absent) and Foot and Mouth Disease exotic(serotypes). The Tanzanian Government needs to make use of prioritised list of TADs and zooneses by paying attention to financial resource allocation and providing political support for the implementation of the disease prevention and control plans.Since all the ranked diseases have huge economic and public health impacts and therefore, their prevention and or containment calls for cordial cooperation of various actors including Eastern Africa region member states, international organisations (OIE,FAO, WHO, AU-IBAR) for harmonised TADs and zooneses control strategies.
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