Haitian and international partners attended a One Health workshop on the control and prevention of rabies in Haiti from the 14-16th of September 2015. The proceedings included a comprehensive symposium on the current Haitian rabies situation, updates to the national control strategy for the elimination of rabies, and the training of 47 participants in the Rabies Educator Certificate (REC) course.
The End Rabies Now campaign urges the international community to step up efforts to eliminate human deaths due to canine-mediated rabies around the world in just 15 years’ time.
GARC is setting up an Advisory Council of experts to support and guide us as we advocate for rabies elimination at the global and regional levels. We are pleased to announce that Professor David Heymann has accepted a position on this Board.
World Rabies Day is the perfect time to celebrate successes and encourage others to become part of the movement to eliminate the world’s deadliest disease
In collaboration with the provincial government and university partners, three types of materials are being produced for the province to remind bus and van operators and their passengers entering Ilocos Norte to have their dogs vaccinated against rabies.
Twelve Khmer-speaking participants worked through GARC’s Rabies Educator Certificate, guided by Mei Castor from the CDC office as part of an Applied Epidemiological Training Plus Rabies Workshop.
As part of our plans to increase political engagement in Europe, Professor Louis Nel, Executive Director of GARC met with Rob Flello MP at the UK’s House of Commons to discuss concerns that the MP has raised about the rabies threat from illegal dog smuggling in the European Union.
World Rabies Day is in its ninth year and the geographical spread of events shows the power of World Rabies Day to unite the rabies prevention community and raise the profile of the disease. Scanning the events that have taken place over the last nine years is inspiring - and this year is no exception.
Initial data from the country reports submitted to the Pan-African Rabies Control Network (PARACON) meeting in June have been made available on the PARACON website as a precursor to a more detailed online epidemiological bulletin for Sub-Saharan Africa.