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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

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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.

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