EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION CAMPAIGNS – NINE YEARS OF WORLD RABIES DAY END RABIES NOW CAMPAIGN Deborah Briggs Kansas State University Chair of Board of Directors Global Alliance for Rabies Control
Aims • World Rabies Day: endemic countries • increase community awareness to prevent rabies • raise profile of national and local control programmes • springboard for year-round capacity building and awareness • End Rabies Now: non-endemic countries • Significantly raise profile of rabies as a global health challenge • Support SDG3 target to end the epidemics of NTDs by 2030 • Put rabies control on the agenda of foundations, donor governments and international institutions • Gain the commitment of politicians
World Rabies Day – created in 2007
Government involvement
10 th World Rabies Day – Join us to increase impact 350 300 250 200 Events 150 Countries 100 50 0 2013 2014 2015
End Rabies Now To mobilise the global community in order to globally eliminate canine-mediated rabies as a public health threat by 2030
Social media & public relations
Call to Action Please support the global elimination of human deaths through canine- mediated rabies by 2030 • At this meeting: Meet Ms Spring Gombe from GARC for further details and to confirm your country’s support • After the meeting: Email spring.gombe@rabiesalliance.org Thank you. • Website : EndRabiesNow.org • Facebook : EndRabiesNow • Twitter : #EndRabiesNow
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