United Against Rabies launches global plan to achieve zero rabies human deaths

United Against Rabies, a collaboration of four partners: the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC), has just launched a strategic plan that provides a phased, all-inclusive, intersectoral approach to eliminate human deaths from rabies.

Zero by 30: the global strategic plan to end human deaths from dog-mediated rabies by 2030 was prepared following a global call in 2015 to “end human rabies deaths by 2030”.

A summary of the plan was made available on the last World Rabies Day (28 September 2017).

The plan provides a coordinated response to rabies prevention, integrated with strengthening of human and veterinary health systems, in order to reach the world’s most underserved populations by engaging, empowering and enabling all countries to lead and strengthen elimination efforts.

You can read the full article on the GARC website here.

 

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View the Lancet Global Health article here