Barriers of attendance to dog rabies static point vaccination clinics in Blantyre, Malawi.

ABSTRACT: Rabies is a devastating yet preventable disease that causes around 59,000 human deaths annually. Almost all human rabies cases are caused by bites from rabies-infected dogs. A large proportion of these cases occur in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Annual vaccination of at least 70% of the dog population is recommended by the World Health Organisation in order to eliminate rabies. However, achieving such high vaccination coverage has proven challenging, especially in low resource settings. Despite being logistically and economically more feasible than door-to-door approaches, static point (SP) vaccination campaigns often suffer from low attendance and therefore result in low vaccination coverage. Here, we investigated the barriers to attendance at SP offering free rabies vaccinations for dogs in

SUBMITTER: Mazeri S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5783422 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature