Countdown to World Rabies Day
Working to eliminate human deaths from dog rabies by 2030
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We are all heroes in the battle against rabies.
Join us in recognizing the unsung heroes in the battle against rabies by nominating them for the World Rabies Day Awards and don’t forget to register your World Rabies Day event, making it part of a global movement dedicated to eliminating rabies through collaboration and community action.
Boosting Rabies Surveillance: Zanzibar’s Success Story with Rapid Diagnostic Kits
While rabies surveillance is crucial on the road towards rabies elimination, new and innovative methods are needed to improve existing surveillance systems. The implementation of the Rapid In-Field Diagnosis and Epidemiology of Rabies (RAIDER) toolkit resulted in increased surveillance and sample submission in Zanzibar.
World unites for dog and cat population management.
The role of dog population management (DPM) in support of rabies control efforts were highlighted at the 5th International conference on humane dog and cat population management hosted by ICAM.
Philippines students deliver bite prevention education to frontline health workers.
A group of REC-graduate students led education and awareness activities in a municipality in the Philippines to educate frontline workers on bite prevention and rabies elimination.
Advance Your Knowledge: New Dog Welfare Certificate is Here
GARC proudly announces its new Dog Welfare Certificate course, offering essential knowledge for anyone interested in canine care. Free and online, this self-paced course covers key topics like diet, shelter, body language, behavior, and health, focusing on low-resource settings. Ideal for any person interested in the well-being of any dog – their own or a community dog.
Enhanced features for better rabies surveillance
With interpreting rabies data remaining core to rabies elimination efforts, we have upgraded the Rabies Epidemiological Bulletin to ensure that users not only have access to a more stable system with improved data security but that they also benefit from new and improved data visualization – ensuring a better user experience for easier interpretation of data collected in the field.
End Rabies Now is on Instagram!
Introducing the End Rabies Now Instagram page dedicated to promoting the Communities Against Rabies initiative! It highlights the stories, updates, and news of Rabies Centers of Excellence and Dog Health Champions around the world and aims to create a community among rabies stakeholders. Follow us @end.rabies.now
More support for practical national planning
Since 2018, GARC has partnered with the FAO to deliver 30 in-country SARE workshops that serve to develop practical and feasible work plans to achieve rabies elimination. But these workshops are ever-evolving and new improvements and exercises have been incorporated to provide practical, realistic, and sustainable solutions to the challenges that rabies-endemic countries face in the implementation of their rabies control activities.
From Greece to GARC: A journey to understanding rabies
Explore personal reflections from someone who grew up in a country without rabies, and how their perceptions and understanding of interactions with dogs was thus affected. With a better understanding of the disease, their understanding of the challenges faced changed, seeing how dogs can be perceived in many different ways by different people.