Socio-spatial heterogeneity in participation in mass dog rabies vaccination campaigns, Arequipa, Peru.

ABSTRACT: To control and prevent rabies in Latin America, mass dog vaccination campaigns (MDVC) are implemented mainly through fixed-location vaccination points: owners have to bring their dogs to the vaccination points where they receive the vaccination free of charge. Dog rabies is still endemic in some Latin-American countries and high overall dog vaccination coverage and even distribution of vaccinated dogs are desired attributes of MDVC to halt rabies virus transmission. In Arequipa, Peru, we conducted a door-to-door post-campaign survey on >6,000 houses to assess the placement of vaccination points on these two attributes. We found that the odds of participating in the campaign decreased by 16% for every 100 m from the owner's house to the nearest vaccination point (p = 0.041) after controllin

SUBMITTER: Castillo-Neyra R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6692050 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature