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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 dog owners in vaccination campaigns. We explored whether and how previously identified contributory
Christian Tetteh Duamor, Felix Lankester, Elaine A Ferguson   +2 more
exaly   +8 more sources

Development, feasibility and potential effectiveness of community-based continuous mass dog vaccination delivery strategies: Lessons for optimization and replication [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 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 ...
Christian Tetteh Duamor, Katie Hampson, Felix Lankester   +2 more
exaly   +9 more sources

Eliminating Rabies in Tanzania? Local Understandings and Responses to Mass Dog Vaccination in Kilombero and Ulanga Districts [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 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.
Kevin Bardosh, Maganga Sambo, Lwitiko Sikana   +2 more
exaly   +10 more sources

Tool for Eliminating Dog-Mediated Human Rabies through Mass Dog Vaccination Campaigns. [PDF]

Emerg Infect Dis, 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 the resources needed to achieve this goal through mass vaccination of dogs.
Undurraga EA, Blanton JD, Thumbi SM, Mwatondo A, Muturi M, Wallace RM.   +5 more
europepmc   +8 more sources

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
exaly   +6 more sources

Challenging a paradigm: Staggered versus single-pulse mass dog vaccination strategy for rabies elimination. [PDF]

PLoS Comput Biol
Background From smallpox to poliomyelitis, halting contagion transmission through simultaneous mass vaccination is ubiquitous and often perceived as the only possible solution. But implementing mass vaccination campaigns in large populations within a short period poses many challenges.
Bellotti BR, Díaz EW, De la Puente-León M, Rieders MT, Recuenco SE, Levy MZ, Castillo-Neyra R.   +6 more
europepmc   +5 more sources

Barriers to rabies control through mass dog vaccination in rural Uganda: Insights from community perspectives and key informant interviews. [PDF]

PLoS Negl Trop Dis
Background Globally, 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 reasons for this low uptake are not fully understood.
Akankwatsa D, Bagonza A, Kiguli J, Kambugu A, Lamorde M, Okech SG, Kankya C, Agado D, Apio F, Odoch T, Kahunde AM, Hartnack S, Léchenne M, Lohr F, Herrera A, Dürr S.   +15 more
europepmc   +5 more sources

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 charge. Dog rabies is still endemic in some Latin-American countries and high overall dog vaccination
Ricardo Castillo-Neyra, Claudia Arévalo-Nieto, Hannelore Macdonald   +2 more
exaly   +7 more sources

Application of the GARC Data Logger-a custom-developed data collection device-to capture and monitor mass dog vaccination campaigns in Namibia. [PDF]

PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 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. Namibia demonstrated the feasibility of this approach by applying government-led strategic rabies vaccination campaigns to reduce both human and ...
Athingo R, Tenzin T, Coetzer A, Hikufe EH, Peter J, Hango L, Haimbodi T, Lipinge J, Haufiku F, Naunyango M, Kephas M, Shilongo A, Shoombe KK, Khaiseb S, Letshwenyo M, Pozzetti P, Nake L, Nel LH, Freuling CM, Müller T, Torres G.   +20 more
europepmc   +7 more sources

Proof of concept of mass dog vaccination for thecontrol and elimination of canine rabies. [PDF]

Rev Sci Tech, 2018
For more than 100 years, canine rabies vaccination has been available as a tool for rabies control and elimination. However, domestic dogs still remain a major reservoir for rabies, and although canine rabies has been eliminated through mass dog ...
Cleaveland S, Thumbi SM, Sambo M, Lugelo A, Lushasi K, Hampson K, Lankester F.   +6 more
europepmc   +4 more sources