Moving from rabies research to rabies control: lessons from India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the availability of effective interventions and public recognition of the severity of the problem, rabies continues to suffer neglect by programme planners in India and other low and middle income countries. We investigate whether this state of 'policy impasse' is due to, at least in part, the research community not catering to the information needs of the policy makers. METHODS #ENTITYSTARTX00026;

Findings

Our objective was to review the research output on rabies from India and examine its alignment with national policy priorities. A systematic literature review of all rabies research articles published from India between 2001 and 2011 was conducted. The distribution of conducted research was compared to the findings of an earlier research prioritization

SUBMITTER: Kakkar M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3413711 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature