Strategies to increase adoption of animal vaccines by smallholder farmers with focus on neglected diseases and marginalized populations

M Donadeu, N Nwankpa, B Abela-Ridder… - PLoS neglected …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background Most smallholder farmers (SHFs) and marginalized populations (MPs) in Africa,
Asia, and Latin America depend on livestock for their livelihoods. However, significant …

Evaluating the role of surgical sterilisation in canine rabies control: A systematic review of impact and outcomes

A Collinson, M Bennett, ML Brennan… - PLoS Neglected …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Current recommendations for the elimination of canine-mediated human rabies focus on
mass dog vaccination as the most feasible and cost-effective strategy. However, attempts to …

[HTML][HTML] The need to improve access to rabies post-exposure vaccines: lessons from Tanzania

J Changalucha, R Steenson, E Grieve, S Cleaveland… - Vaccine, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Rabies is preventable through prompt administration of post-exposure
prophylaxis (PEP) to exposed persons, but PEP access is limited in many rabies-endemic …

Long term trends and spatial distribution of animal bite injuries and deaths due to human rabies infection in Uganda, 2001-2015

B Masiira, I Makumbi, JKB Matovu, AR Ario… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background In the absence of accurate data on trends and the burden of human rabies
infection in developing countries, animal bite injuries provide useful information to bridge …

Dog ecology and rabies knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) in the Northern Communal Areas of Namibia

T Tenzin, EH Hikufe, N Hedimbi… - PLOS Neglected …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
In 2021, a comprehensive dog demographic questionnaire combined with a KAP survey
were conducted in the northern communal areas (NCAs) of Namibia with the aim of gaining …

Ecology and epidemiology of rabies in humans, domestic animals and wildlife in Namibia, 2011-2017

EH Hikufe, CM Freuling, R Athingo… - PLoS Neglected …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Rabies is a fatal zoonotic disease that causes a heavy burden on societies. Namibia, a
country in southern Africa, is aiming at controlling the disease in its main reservoir, the …

Cost-effectiveness of dog rabies vaccination programs in East Africa

RH Borse, CY Atkins, M Gambhir… - PLoS neglected …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background Dog rabies annually causes 24,000–70,000 deaths globally. We built a
spreadsheet tool, RabiesEcon, to aid public health officials to estimate the cost-effectiveness …

Scaling-up the delivery of dog vaccination campaigns against rabies in Tanzania

M Sambo, EA Ferguson, B Abela-Ridder… - PLoS Neglected …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
An increasing number of countries are committing to meet the global target to eliminate
human deaths from dog-mediated rabies by 2030. Mass dog vaccination is central to this …

Bolstering human rabies surveillance in Africa is crucial to eliminating canine-mediated rabies

A Broban, MC Tejiokem, I Tiembré… - PLoS Neglected …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Canine rabies has been controlled or eliminated in most developed countries through mass
dog vaccination programs. However, the transmission of rabies to humans continues to be a …

Practices in research, surveillance and control of neglected tropical diseases by One Health approaches: A survey targeting scientists from French-speaking countries

S Molia, J Saillard, K Dellagi, F Cliquet… - PLoS Neglected …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
One health (OH) approaches have increasingly been used in the last decade in the fight
against zoonotic neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). However, descriptions of such …