Eswatini

Rabies Elimination Progress

Latest SARE score: 2.5 (2018)
In-country SARE assessment done: No

The Stepwise Approach towards Rabies Elimination (SARE) is a practical planning, monitoring and evaluation tool to guide, develop and refine rabies control programmes. It provides measurable steps, designed as a logical flow of activities, to progress from Stage 0 to Stage 5, in efforts towards freedom from dog-transmitted rabies. 

 

A SARE score of 2.5 out of 5 signifies a country where a national rabies control programme being implemented nationwide, with clear inter-sectoral collaboration.

 

2018: SARE assessment at a PARACON meeting
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2017: SARE assessment at a PARACON meeting
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2016: SARE assessment at a PARACON meeting
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2015: SARE assessment at a PARACON meeting

Epidemiological Data

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In-country Capacity Building

August 2022
Hhohho
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GARC assisted the Hhohho region's mass dog vaccination campaign by undertaking a virtual workshop on the use of the Vaccination and Sterilization (VST) tool on the GARC App - ensuring that each vaccinator can quickly and easily collect rabies vaccination and sterilization data before it's analyzed on the Rabies Epidemiological Bulletin (REB).

February 2020
Manzini
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Staff at the central veterinary laboratory were trained on collecting brain samples using a safe and less-invasive method using a straw.

September 2018
South Africa
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Network / Workshop participation:
Attended the "New WHO recommendations on human rabies immunization and results of Gavi’s Learning Agenda on rabies & 2nd international meeting of the Pan-African Rabies Control Network (PARACON)" (more information)

September 2017
South Africa
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Network / Workshop participation:
Attended the "2nd sub-Regional PARACON meeting" (more information)

October 2016
South Africa
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Network / Workshop participation:


Attended the "Southern African Rabies Community" meeting (more information)

June 2015
South Africa
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Network / Workshop participation:
Attended the "Inaugural Pan-African Rabies Control Network (PARACON) meeting" (more information)