ARUSHA Society for the Protection of Animals
Arusha runs a once-weekly rabies vaccination clinic in small towns and villages in Northern Tanzania and will use the clinic to celebrate World Rabies Day. For more information contact Sarah Vallentine at !Please, turn on JavaScript or go to the contact us page!.
CAMEROON
The Foundation for Animal Welfare will be conducting public lectures in schools and the rural community (a high-risk group). Their vet surgeon Dr Achiri intends to go out with a team of vets to give the lectures and distribute leaflets and flyers, targeting pet owners, the public, school children etc. They are also collaborating with the government veterinary department in delivering the lectures, and intend to measure the impact of the campaign by monitoring statistics on human rabies incidence. For more information contact Sarah Vallentine at !Please, turn on JavaScript or go to the contact us page!.
Addis Ababa, ETHIOPA
Ethiopia is planning on celebrating World Rabies Day in association with their historical Ethiopian Millennium (2000; using both the Ethiopian and Gregorian calendar). The program named “Children Against Rabies” will focus on many schools in Addis Ababa. For more information, or to get involved, please contact Dr. Arthuro Mehretu: !Please, turn on JavaScript or go to the contact us page!.
GHANA
A National pet show and public lecture will be held in commemoration of World Rabies Day in Accra. The theme, dubbed "Kick Rabies out of Ghana" aims at increasing awareness of the disease, scaling the tragedies of rabies and controlling the disease in humans and animals.
MALI
On September 8, 2007, with the technical coordination of National Lab Vet, a 26mn documentary will be broadcast, followed by a debate that will address general rabies topics and specificity of Mali and Western Africa. During the day, local and national radio will also broadcast short dramatized dialogues in local languages to raise public awareness. Available posters and information will be distributed. For more information contact Frédéric Poudevigne at !Please, turn on JavaScript or go to the contact us page!.
NIGERIA
The students and faculty of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) are planning a campus-wide rally and educational visits to elementary schools within the locality on the 6th of September, 2007. This will target school children who are often victims of dog bites. There will be a symposium on rabies organized by the Department of Veterinary Public Health, ABU on September 7, 2007. Plans are on the way to carry out dog vaccination campaigns in the locality on the 8th of September 2007. Radio jingles about rabies will be aired for the whole month of September. On a national scale, antirabies vaccinations by the Ministry of Agriculture have already started. These events will raise awareness about rabies locally and throughout the country and contribute to better dog rabies control and ultimately human rabies prevention. For more information, please contact Dr. Asabe Dzikwi: !Please, turn on JavaScript or go to the contact us page!
SOUTH AFRICA
The National Rabies Advisory Group is planning a National Rabies Week in association with World Rabies Day. Activities will take place during the week of September 3rd to 9th. In each municipality an
awareness drive will be driven at local level by the State Veterinary office in the area. Each of the nine provinces will also have a provincial ceremony involving high ranking officials and politicians to drive awareness. Pamphlets, t-shirts, banners, posters and more are being produced. There will be a national and local media campaign in the build up to the event. Schools are a major target and children will be taught about the dangers of the disease. The Department of Health will also be running awareness campaigns through their local clinics. Annual vaccination campaigns will be held throughout the country to vaccinate dogs and cats. Medical and Veterinary students will be targeted to increase their knowledge of the control and post exposure treatment. Post exposure treatment posters are being circulated to all clinics and private doctors. There will be a re-print of the comprehensive Rabies Guideline for the medical, Veterinary
and Allied Professions, which will be distributed. Articles are being placed in professional and lay literature. All private veterinary practices will receive promotional material and the South African Veterinary Association has given its support to the campaign. The campaign will culminate nationally
with the Ministers of Agriculture and Health visiting a hot-spot for an awareness rally. For more information, please contact Dr. Michael Swart ( !Please, turn on JavaScript or go to the contact us page!).
TANZANIA
A press released will be announced one day before World Rabies Day by the Ministry of Livestock Development. Dog vaccination campaigns will be held in Dar es Salaam and Morogoro, involving district veterinary officers and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (Sokoine University of Agriculture) A guest of honor will be invited to visit one of the vaccination areas, and media (radio and magazine journalists) invited to cover the event. Educational material will be disseminated during the campaigns. For more information contact Sarah Cleaveland at !Please, turn on JavaScript or go to the contact us page!
TANZANIA
ARUSHA Society for the Protection of Animals
Arusha runs a once-weekly rabies vaccination clinic in small towns and villages in Northern Tanzania and will use the clinic to celebrate World Rabies Day. For more information contact Sarah Vallentine at !Please, turn on JavaScript or go to the contact us page!.
SERENGETI
Several activities are planned in the villages surrounding the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, where dog rabies vaccination campaigns have been implemented over the past four years as a part of a project called 'Afya Serengeti' to protect the health of people, domestic animals and wildlife in the Serengeti region. A village near the park has been selected as the focus of activities, which include a walk, at which school children will carry posters and banners about rabies prevention and control. The district commissioner will make a speech at the end of the walk and educational leaflets distributed. During the day a bicycle race will be held, and in the evening a football match will take place. At the end of the day, a member of the dog vaccination team and his band will entertain the villagers a music concert. For more information contact Sarah Cleaveland at !Please, turn on JavaScript or go to the contact us page!.
ZAMBIA
Dr. Perfecto Buyamba Kabanshi, a rural veterinarian and an advocate of canine rabies control in Mufumbwe District of the Northwestern Province of Zambia, will be conducting public lectures to the rural community on rabies, its prevention and control. The lectures will include some video clips and is aimed at an area where canine rabies is a big problem and consequently human deaths occur. For more information, or to assist, contact Dr. Kabanshi: !Please, turn on JavaScript or go to the contact us page!.
