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
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 Juni 202519min
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 Dec 202416min
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 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
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...
1 Aug 202422min
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 Juni 202422min
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 Maj 202421min
