Inspire and be inspired this World Rabies Day

World Rabies Day is in its ninth year and scanning the events that have taken place over the last nine years is inspiring - and this year is no exception. We hope you'll take a moment out to look at the map and take stock of all the amazing work that is going on.

This year, we’ve updated the look of the World Rabies Day section to make it easier for those of you who might be accessing the website on smaller screens.

This screenshot of the global map of events registered for 2015 (taken with still more than two weeks to go) shows participation from new countries, including a huge increase in the number of events in Africa.

The diversity and geographical spread of events shows the power of World Rabies Day to unite the rabies prevention community and raise the profile of the disease. If you’re yet to register your event, it only takes a couple of minutes and helps us publicise your effort and share your work with the world. You can register here

https://rabiesalliance.org/world-rabies-day/events/report-event

We’re hoping to see lots of pictures from events too! Remember to comment and share photographs via the comment box on each event’s unique page.

You’ll need to log in – either via a Disqus account which only takes a minute to create, or using your existing Facebook, Twitter or Google + account. This is important to ensure comments are genuinely about the event.

And if you’re in America, your photographs will be entered into the Pan-American World Rabies Day Initiative’s photo competition. See https://rabiesalliance.org/world-rabies-day/events/pawrd2015 for more details. 

If you’re looking to support World Rabies Day on social media, the hashtag this year is #EndRabies. We’re also asking people to update their social media profile pictures to the End Rabies Together logo – shown on the right, here. Right click on the picture to save it to your computer and update your profile picture on the day.

We hope you find the events happening for World Rabies Day inspiring. And if you’re planning an event yourself, please make sure you register it to help inspire others. Let’s End Rabies Together.