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Participation in mass dog vaccination campaigns in Tanzania: Benefits of community engagement [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
BackgroundCanine rabies causes about 59,000 human deaths each year globally but the disease can be eliminated by sustaining sufficient dog vaccination coverage over several consecutive years. A challenge to achieving high coverage is low participation of
Christian Tetteh Duamor, Christian Tetteh Duamor, Christian Tetteh Duamor, Felix Lankester, Felix Lankester, Emmanuel Mpolya, Elaine A. Ferguson, Paul CD. Johnson, Sally Wyke, Sarah Cleaveland, Katie Hampson, Katharina Kreppel, Katharina Kreppel   +12 more
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Barriers to rabies control through mass dog vaccination in rural Uganda: Insights from community perspectives and key informant interviews. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
BackgroundGlobally, rabies claims about 59,000 human lives annually, and 99% of human transmission is by dogs. The disease is entirely preventable through mass dog vaccination. Despite this, only an estimated 10% of dogs in Uganda are vaccinated, and the
Dickson Akankwatsa, Arthur Bagonza, Juliet Kiguli, Andrew Kambugu, Mohammed Lamorde, Samuel George Okech, Clovice Kankya, Doreen Agado, Felister Apio, Terence Odoch, Anna Mary Kahunde, Sonja Hartnack, Monique Léchenne, Frederic Lohr, Adrian Herrera, Salome Dürr   +15 more
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Tool for Eliminating Dog-Mediated Human Rabies through Mass Dog Vaccination Campaigns [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017
The World Health Organization and collaborating agencies have set the goal of eliminating dog-mediated human rabies by 2030. Building on experience with rabies endemic countries, we constructed a user-friendly tool to help public health officials plan ...
Eduardo A. Undurraga, Jesse D. Blanton, S.M. Thumbi, Athman Mwatondo, Mathew Muturi, Ryan M. Wallace   +5 more
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Application of the GARC Data Logger-a custom-developed data collection device-to capture and monitor mass dog vaccination campaigns in Namibia. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2020
Domestic dogs are responsible for 99% of all cases of human rabies and thus, mass dog vaccination has been demonstrated to be the most effective approach towards the elimination of dog-mediated human rabies.
Rauna Athingo, Tenzin Tenzin, Andre Coetzer, Emmanuel H Hikufe, Josephat Peter, Laina Hango, Tangeni Haimbodi, Johannes Lipinge, Frenada Haufiku, Matias Naunyango, Magano Kephas, Albertina Shilongo, Kenneth K Shoombe, Siegfried Khaiseb, Moetapele Letshwenyo, Patricia Pozzetti, Lorenz Nake, Louis H Nel, Conrad M Freuling, Thomas Müller, Gregorio Torres   +20 more
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Challenging a paradigm: Staggered versus single-pulse mass dog vaccination strategy for rabies elimination. [PDF]

PLoS Computational Biology
BackgroundFrom smallpox to poliomyelitis, halting contagion transmission through simultaneous mass vaccination is ubiquitous and often perceived as the only possible solution.
Brinkley Raynor Bellotti, Elvis W Díaz, Micaela De la Puente-León, Maria T Rieders, Sergio E Recuenco, Michael Z Levy, Ricardo Castillo-Neyra   +6 more
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An implementation science framework to understand low coverage in mass dog rabies vaccination. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
BackgroundDog-mediated human rabies has been greatly reduced in the Americas and eliminated from most high-income countries. However, many countries in Africa, Asia, and parts of Latin America are still struggling with this gruesome disease.
Ricardo Castillo-Neyra, Lizzie Ortiz-Cam, Jorge L Cañari-Casaño, Elvis W Díaz, Laura D Tamayo, Guillermo Porras, Sergio E Recuenco, Valerie A Paz-Soldan   +7 more
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Development, feasibility and potential effectiveness of community-based continuous mass dog vaccination delivery strategies: Lessons for optimization and replication. [PDF]

PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2022
Objectives Dog vaccination can eliminate rabies in dogs, but annual delivery strategies do not sustain vaccination coverage between campaigns. We describe the development of a community-based continuous mass dog vaccination (CBC-MDV) approach designed to improve and maintain vaccination coverage in Tanzania and ...
Duamor CT, Hampson K, Lankester F, Lugelo A, Mpolya E, Kreppel K, Cleaveland S, Wyke S.   +7 more
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Integrating a community-based continuous mass dog vaccination delivery strategy into the veterinary system of Tanzania: A process evaluation using normalization process theory. [PDF]

One Health, 2023
Sustained vaccination coverage of domestic dog populations can interrupt rabies transmission. However, challenges remain including low dog owner participation, high operational costs associated with current (centralized and annually delivered (pulse)) approaches and high dog population turnover.
Duamor CT, Hampson K, Lankester F, Lugelo A, Changalucha J, Lushasi KS, Czupryna A, Mpolya E, Kreppel K, Cleaveland S, Wyke S.   +10 more
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Socio-spatial heterogeneity in participation in mass dog rabies vaccination campaigns, Arequipa, Peru.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2019
To control and prevent rabies in Latin America, mass dog vaccination campaigns (MDVC) are implemented mainly through fixed-location vaccination points: owners have to bring their dogs to the vaccination points where they receive the vaccination free of ...
Ricardo Castillo-Neyra, Amparo M Toledo, Claudia Arevalo-Nieto, Hannelore MacDonald, Micaela De la Puente-León, Cesar Naquira-Velarde, Valerie A Paz-Soldan, Alison M Buttenheim, Michael Z Levy   +8 more
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Eliminating rabies in Tanzania? Local understandings and responses to mass dog vaccination in Kilombero and Ulanga districts. [PDF]

PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2014
With increased global attention to neglected diseases, there has been a resurgence of interest in eliminating rabies from developing countries through mass dog vaccination. Tanzania recently embarked on an ambitious programme to repeatedly vaccinate dogs in 28 districts.
Bardosh K, Sambo M, Sikana L, Hampson K, Welburn SC.   +4 more
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