CAMPAIGNS

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Rabies touches the lives of ordinary people around the world, yet rabies remains neglected by policy makers. Through campaigns, we seek to lobby policy makers to tackle rabies control. Despite the fact that rabies is entirely preventable and the tools for effective rabies control are available, over 55,000 people die annually of rabies. This is an intolerable situation.

Through our campaigns we seek to provide the tools to allow people to educate themselves and their community as to the risks of rabies and appropriate post exposure action to take. We campaign alongside other organizations who share our goals. This gives us reach and makes us part of a grass-roots global movement for change.

 
WORLD RABIES DAY CAMPAIGN

In 2006 we created a World Rabies Day to raise awareness of this neglected disease. Although many World Days existed, we believed that it was crucial to establish a day for rabies, as it truly remains a neglected disease which attracts very little support or attention. The WRD campaign was overwhelmingly supported throughout the world as a means to join together and therefore become 'a force' in the fight to prevent rabies.  The incredible international involvement from hundreds of thousands of individuals from a multitude of countries provides evidence that people from all levels of society believe that WRD provides a platform for everyone working on rabies prevention issues, (from people involved in rabies prevention at local level in remote tiny villages in dveloping countries to researchers engaged in specific rabies projects and even policy makers in International Health Organizations) to work together to make rabies history!  Through the WRD campaign we continue to engage all the major stakeholders associated with rabies to take action. This includes all the major international public and veterinary health organizations such as the OIE, CDC, WHO, PAHO, numerous national governments and Colleges of Veterinary Medicine throughout the world.  To learn more visit the World Rabies Day website.

Meet some of the people campaigning for change.

INDIA

In Hisar, India, the College of Veterinary Sciences organized different activities for increasing awareness about rabies prevention. They visited different schools in the city for a week and distributed rabies information to children. The College will also organized a workshop on rabies. The Workshop is aimed at providing a common platform for interaction among public health professionals, physicians, veterinary public health specialists, epidemiologists, microbiologists, veterinarians and other professionals to update their knowledge and to plan strategies to prevent rabies in man and animals.

Photo: Dr. S. R. Garg 

 

NIGERIA 

In addition to a National broadcast by the Minister of Health that aired on the Nigerian Television Authority, Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria held art workshops for World Rabies Day. 

Photo: Asabe Dzikwi 

 

PERU

In Peru, numerous postmarks spreading the theme "Working Togther to Make Rabies History" were developed to commemorate World Rabies Day 2007. Various postmarks were used in different cities throughout the country from October to January. In September 2008, Peru officials expect to release a stamp in celebration of World Rabies Day.  

 

PHILIPPINES

World Rabies Day parade and celebration. 

 

THAILAND

Largest-ever gathering on rabies campaign was organized by the Molecular Biology Center for Neurological Diseases, Chulalongkorn University Hospital, Thai Red Cross Society, Ministry of Public Health, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperation, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, and various animal-lover groups.  

Photo: Molecular Biology Center for Neurological Diseases, Chulalongkorn Univ. Hospital
 
 

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