Newsletter Issue 56

Editorial for the February 2018 newsletter. Capacity building is an essential component of the work of many international organisations and NGOs, including GARC.

Our end-of-year fundraising campaign was to print Want a Friend, Be a Friend booklets to be distributed in Harare, Zimbabwe.

A new planning tool was launched during a review workshop to support the strategic island-wide dog vaccination project in Zanzibar

The GARC Philippines office provided technical input and materials for a field training program for an all-female vet student association, including instruction in the Rabies Educator Certificate (REC) and professional guidance during a rabies vaccination campaign.

An online tool has been developed by US CDC, based on their GDREP framework, to help users to estimate the time and overall costs required to achieve the elimination dog mediated human rabies deaths by 2030.

As the year closes, GARC would like to extend a special thanks to all of our individual donors and fundraisers who have supported us in 2017.

GARC’s educational platform continues to expand awareness about rabies and how to control it around the world.

In Nepal, the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) authority has developed a novel approach to street dog management and rabies control by devolving responsibility to the smallest unit of local government – the ward.

The first monoclonal antibody product developed to replace the rabies immunoglobulin (RIG) component of rabies post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) is now available across India.

Citywide vaccination campaigns in N’Djamena, the capital city of Chad, and a deterministic model based on epidemiological data have demonstrated that rabies elimination can be achieved in Africa.

A round-up of recent research news most relevant to GARC's mission.