Rabies in Africa
Rabies Today1 Aug 2024

Rabies in Africa

Rabies still kills at least 25,000 people each year in Africa, many of them children. It also kills huge numbers of livestock animals at great cost to farming and pastoral communities. In this episode, Katie Hampson reports from northern Tanzania where there has been some progress in bringing rabies under control, but also meets a family whose son has recently been infected. Across Africa, the people most vulnerable to rabies usually live in remote and rural areas, where dog vaccination ...

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All About Awareness

All About Awareness

In the run up to World Rabies Day, an urgent need to ramp up public and health worker knowledge about this dangerous and deadly disease, not only in rabies-endemic countries but also in countries free...

26 Aug 202522min

Ukraine, Tanzania and new tools and resources

Ukraine, Tanzania and new tools and resources

In Ukraine, rabies is rising among abandoned pets, and could spread to surrounding countries in Europe. We hear an urgent call for mass vaccination and sterilisation of dogs to avert catastrophe. In T...

24 Jun 202519min

Rabies in Conflict Zones

Rabies in Conflict Zones

The battle against rabies is complex and difficult. But imagine having to fight rabies in a country at war. In this episode, we meet three people working in enormously challenging circumstances in A...

10 Des 202416min

Rabies Control: Don't Wait, Do Something

Rabies Control: Don't Wait, Do Something

South African rabies expert Kevin Le Roux told colleages at the United Against Rabies Forum in Cape Town that rabies data will never be perfect, so what is vital is to act to control the disease and s...

23 Okt 202419min

World Rabies Day: Working with Communities

World Rabies Day: Working with Communities

World Rabies Day is September 28th, an important day for community mobilization around dog vaccination and raising public awareness. But what's really successful when working with communities? And wha...

20 Sep 202417min

Gavi's Vaccine Rollout

Gavi's Vaccine Rollout

Human rabies vaccines for PEP save lives by stopping the deadly virus reaching the central nervous system. But these lifesaving vaccines are often unavailable or unaffordable, especially in marginaliz...

11 Jun 202422min

Rabies in South East Asia

Rabies in South East Asia

Dog-mediated rabies is on the rise in Southeast Asia, including in areas that were previously rabies free. Could a new ASEAN strategy finally turn the tide in the region to address low dog vaccination...

20 Mai 202421min

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