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Advocating for elimination: Moving towards a rabies-free Southeast Asia

Advocacy and awareness remain key in addressing the neglected nature of rabies. Through an improved understanding of the challenges faced, as well as practical solutions and success stories, rabies can be prioritized, and elimination achieved. Read about a key advocacy piece that can help change the minds of international stakeholders and leaders through evidence and success.
World Rabies Day 2022: One Health, Zero deaths

World Rabies Day - stronger every year!

Following the 2 years of pandemic, World Rabies Day dynamically returned to raise awareness, save lives, and highlight the connection with One Health. Global efforts made social media and the news sizzle, while this year’s awardee selection became even harder for the judges.

United Against Rabies collaboration celebrates one year of progress towards zero human rabies deaths by 2030

Since the launch of ‘Zero by 30’ in 2018, the United Against Rabies collaboration has made progress to empower, engage and enable countries to reach the rabies elimination goal by 2030. Released today on World Rabies Day, the first annual progress report describes the incremental, collaborative impact of the four partners in promoting the One Health approach and achieving the three objectives of the Global Strategic Plan.

United Against Rabies launches global plan to achieve zero rabies human deaths

A strategic plan that provides a phased, all-inclusive, intersectoral approach to eliminate human deaths from rabies has just been launched by United Against Rabies, a collaboration of four partners: the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC).

Press release: Towards a rabies-free world as unparalleled global initiative gets underway

World Rabies Day 2017 marks the announcement of the biggest global anti-rabies initiative as the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and GARC reveal an ambitious plan to end human deaths from dog-transmitted rabies by 2030.

World Rabies Day—10 years of making the world take notice

World Rabies Day is not just about taking action, it is a way of standing up together and making the world take notice.

The Global Framework to eliminate rabies deaths by 2030

On March 16th, the OIE and WHO, FAO and GARC released the final version of the global framework for the elimination of dog-mediated human rabies.

The End Rabies Now Campaign Launches

The End Rabies Now (ERN) campaign was officially launched on Wednesday, 24 February at the British Houses of Parliament in London. The ERN campaign is calling for an end to human deaths from dog-mediated rabies by 2030.

Rabies control in the SDG era

The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted in September 2015, have a wide reach, encompassing economic development, education, justice, peace and environmental sustainability. Besides the health goal that specifically mentions neglected tropical disease (NTD) elimination, several of the other goals (related to poverty, inequality, education, and infrastructure) could directly and indirectly benefit rabies control.

An end to human rabies deaths - The time is now!

Delegates from around the world gathered in Geneva on 10-11th December 2015 for a landmark meeting, entitled “Global elimination of dog-mediated human rabies: The time is now”.