The Mission Rabies Truck has been 'a phenomenal tool for disseminating techniques towards rabies control and elimination'.

Charity getting closer to eliminating deadly disease

Animal welfare charity Mission Rabies are vaccinating more dogs than ever before and getting closer to eliminating the deadly disease.

As well as vaccinating over 100,000 more dogs than they did in 2014, Mission Rabies say that they have also had a positive impact on the perception towards mass dog vaccination.

The charity add that their Mission Rabies Truck, integrated with Oozy WVS ITC surgical training courses, has been ‘a phenomenal tool for disseminating techniques towards rabies control and elimination’.

Thanks to the efforts of the ITC team, who are a key part of the Mission Rabies programme, The Nigiris District in Southern India has been declared rabies free.

One of the biggest challenges faced by Mission Rabies across such large geographic areas is in the monitoring, evaluation and validation of work conducted remotely.

To tackle this, Mission Rabies recently launched an app to monitor mass vaccination campaigns in multiple locations. Designed from field experience, the app enables data collection and improved project management of large scale projects.

A Mission Rabies spokesperson said: “It’s been an amazing year and our plans are only to go onwards and upwards, vaccinating more dogs than ever before and getting closer to eliminating this devastating disease.”

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