Rabies Tech Watch is a comprehensive digital platform designed to enhance rabies prevention and control efforts in Ethiopia. By leveraging technology, this innovative program aims to improve surveillance, vaccination, and community engagement.

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Approach

Surveillance and Data Sharing
  • Integrated surveillance: Conduct comprehensive surveillance of rabies cases in humans, domestic animals, and wildlife.
  • Data sharing: Establish mechanisms for sharing data across sectors to identify trends, risk factors, and areas of concern.
Vaccination Programs
  • Mass vaccination: Implement mass vaccination programs for domestic animals, especially dogs, which are the primary reservoir of rabies in many regions.
  • Human vaccination: Provide pre-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for individuals at high risk of exposure, such as veterinarians, wildlife workers, and travelers to rabies-endemic areas.
Vector Control
  • Wildlife management: Implement measures to control wildlife populations that can transmit rabies, such as bats and raccoons.
  • Habitat modification: Modify habitats to reduce contact between humans and wildlife.
Community Engagement
  • Public education: Raise awareness about rabies prevention and control among the public, emphasizing the importance of vaccination, responsible pet ownership, and avoiding contact with wild animals.
  • Community participation: Involve communities in rabies prevention and control activities, such as animal vaccination campaigns and surveillance programs.
Intersectoral Collaboration
  • Partnerships: Foster partnerships between human and animal health sectors, wildlife conservation organizations, and local governments.
  • Joint planning: Develop and implement joint rabies prevention and control strategies.
  • Shared resources: Pool resources and expertise to enhance the effectiveness of rabies control efforts.

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Sectors Engagement

Effective rabies prevention and control requires a coordinated effort from multiple sectors. Human health, animal health, wildlife, environment, policymakers, and non-state actors must collaborate to address the complex factors that contribute to rabies transmission. Policymakers can provide the necessary policy framework and resource allocation. Human health and animal health sectors can implement vaccination programs, surveillance activities, and public health campaigns. Wildlife and environmental sectors can manage wildlife populations and habitat conditions. Non-state actors, such as NGOs and community-based organizations, can play a crucial role in raising awareness, mobilizing communities, and providing support for rabies prevention and control efforts. By working together, these sectors can create a more comprehensive and effective approach to combating rabies.

Human Health Sectors

  • Pre-exposure
  • Post-exposure
  • Diagnosis
  • Recording/Reporting
  • Capacity Building

Animal Health Sectors

  • Dog mass Vaccination
  • Pet Vaccination
  • Euthanasia of Rabid
  • Animal Birth Control
  • Recording/Reporting
  • Capacity Building

Environmental Health Sectors

  • Environmental and Epidemiological Modeling of Rabies Transmission
  • Reducing wildlife domestic animal interaction

Wildlife Sectors

  • Epidemiological investigation of rabies
  • Reducing spillover of Rabies from wildlife to domestic animals and humans at wildlife domestic interface
  • Wildlife population management

Other Sectors

  • Increasing literacy Rate and Health Resources
  • Adequate budget
  • Increasing Accessibility
  • Public Awareness / Public Participation
  • Coordination between Human and Animal Health Professional

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