Participation in mass dog vaccination campaigns in Tanzania: Benefits of community engagement [PDF]
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 +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]
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 +15 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]
Objectives Dog vaccination can eliminate rabies, 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
Katie Hampson +2 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]
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 ...
Duamor CT +10 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]
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 +20 more
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Tool for Eliminating Dog-Mediated Human Rabies through Mass Dog Vaccination Campaigns [PDF]
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 +5 more
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Challenging a paradigm: Staggered versus single-pulse mass dog vaccination strategy for rabies elimination. [PDF]
BackgroundFrom smallpox to poliomyelitis, halting contagion transmission through simultaneous mass vaccination is ubiquitous and often perceived as the only possible solution.
Brinkley Raynor Bellotti +6 more
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Eliminating Rabies in Tanzania? Local Understandings and Responses to Mass Dog Vaccination in Kilombero and Ulanga Districts [PDF]
Background With increased global attention to neglected diseases, there has been a resurgence of interest in eliminating rabies from developing countries through mass dog vaccination.
Katie Hampson +2 more
exaly +10 more sources
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 +8 more
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Development of Dog Vaccination Strategies to Maintain Herd Immunity against Rabies
Human rabies can be prevented through mass dog vaccination campaigns; however, in rabies endemic countries, pulsed central point campaigns do not always achieve the recommended coverage of 70%.
Ahmed Lugelo +8 more
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