World Rabies Day

• World Rabies Day is an international awareness campaign coordinated by the Global Alliance for Rabies Control, a non-profit organization based in the United States.
• It is an observance of the United Nations and has been endorsed by international human and veterinary health organizations such as the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, the World Organization for Animal Health, and the Centers for the Control and Prevention of Diseases of the United States.
• World Rabies Day is celebrated every year on September 28, the anniversary of the death of Louis Pasteur, who, in collaboration with his colleagues, developed the first effective vaccine against rabies.
• World Rabies Day aims to raise awareness about the effects of rabies in humans and animals, provide information and advice on how to prevent the disease in vulnerable communities, and encourage the promotion of greater efforts to combat rabies.

History and significance:

• The first World Rabies Day campaign took place on September 8, 2007, as a partnership between the Alliance for Rabies Control and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA, under the patronage of the World Health Organization, the World Organization for Animal Health and the Pan American Health Organization.
• In 2009, after three World Rabies Days, the Global Alliance for Rabies Control estimated that rabies awareness and prevention events had been held in more than 100 countries, that nearly 100 million people across the world had received education on rabies and almost 3 million dogs. they were vaccinated at events related to the campaign.
• A 2011 review by a network of international government agencies, academics, NGOs, and vaccine manufacturers identified World Rabies Day as a useful tool to support rabies prevention, targeting at-risk communities, animal health workers, health professionals, governments, key opinion leaders. and experts.
• In the years after the review, governments and international organizations also used World Rabies Day as a day to announce guidelines, plans and progress in eradicating rabies. In 2013, for example, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Health Organization and the World Organization for Animal Health called for the global eradication of rabies transmitted by dogs for the first time in a joint statement published World Rabies Day.
• It has been included in the rabies control strategy of the Union of Southeast Asian Nations. At the first meeting of the Pan-African Rabies Control Network in 2015, the 33 African countries represented there recommended that World Rabies Day be viewed as an opportunity to promote rabies.
• World Rabies Day has been celebrated in the Philippines at the national and local levels since 2007 and is part of the National Rabies Prevention and Control Program.

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