ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Challenges to the Fight against Rabies-The Landscape of Policy and Prevention Strategies in Africa.
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- Adjuvanted inactivated rabies virus-vectored Lassa virus vaccine in healthy adults: a phase 1 trial.Nature medicine · 2026Trial
- Delay in initiation of rabies post-exposure vaccination and influencing factors in Gondar zones of Ethiopia.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
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- Biosurveillance and early outbreak detection of rabies in settings with limited laboratory capacity using spatiotemporal clustering and a machine learning framework.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Exploring Global Strategies to Combat Rabies: Addressing Limitations and Enhancing Effectiveness.Veterinary medicine and science · 2025Review
- Barriers to rabies control through mass dog vaccination in rural Uganda: Insights from community perspectives and key informant interviews.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Global Perspectives on Rabies Control and Elimination: A Scoping Review of Dog Owners' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Rabies-preventive health program for mothers in maternal and child health centers: quasi experimental study.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Article
- Animal rabies prevention and control in Shanghai, China: policies and practices, 2011-2025.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Free-roaming dog populations and movement methodologies for global rabies elimination: knowns and unknowns - a scoping review.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Review
- Machine learning to improve the understanding of rabies epidemiology in low surveillance settings.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Rabies control in Ghana: Stakeholders interventions, challenges and opportunities.Health science reports · 2024Article
- Assessment of respondents' knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward rabies and associated risk factors in Shone Town, Southern Ethiopia.Journal of veterinary science · 2024Article
- Dog ecology and rabies control including canine vaccination coverage: Impacts from a survey in Madagascar.PloS one · 2024Article
- Tracking lethal threat: in-depth review of rabies.Open veterinary journal · 2023Review
- Quantifying the interconnectedness between poverty, health access, and rabies mortality.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2023Article
- Ecological and Socioeconomic Factors in the Occurrence of Rabies: A Forgotten Scenario.Infectious disease reports · 2022Article
- Rabies prevention and control practices and associated factors among dog owners in Chiro, West Hararghe, Ethiopia.Journal of public health research · 2022Article
- "When a dog bites someone": Community and service provider dynamics influencing access to integrated bite case management in Chad.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Article
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8 authors at 3 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
Nearly 59,000 human deaths worldwide are attributable to rabies annually, of which more than a third occur in Africa. In recent years, progress has been made in both action and collaboration including implementation of surveillance and prevention measures. In this review we assess the scale of surveillance, preventive, and control efforts of canine-transmitted human rabies in African countries. We reviewed literature published from 2014 to 2018, retrieved from electronic databases including MEDLINE, Global Index Medicus, BIOSIS, Science Citation Index, and EMBASE. WHO reports, national disease control program reports, and conference proceedings were also reviewed. The database search was conducted using keywords including rabies, control, and prevention. In forty countries (40/54), some level of rabies control and prevention strategy was available while in fourteen (14/54) countries, no specific national control and prevention strategy for human rabies could be retrieved. Thirty-four (34/54) countries utilized the Stepwise Approach towards Rabies Elimination (SARE) tool to monitor the national rabies control efforts-five of these countries were at the lowest tier (0/5) of the SARE scoring system while no country had achieved the highest score (5/5). High burden countries need to step up the implementation of context specific national rabies control, prevention, and monitoring strategies. As a zoonosis, rabies control and elimination require coordination between human and veterinarian health sectors under the "One Health" umbrella and with national master plans on the prevention and control of neglected tropical diseases ending in 2020, the time to act is now.
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