Dog mediated rabies still kills more than 60’000 people every year. This indicates a significant failure of current health systems in developing countries, with very poor access of exposed patients to quality rabies post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP). This lack of accessibility is mainly due to...

Background

The health of humans and animals is closely related to social-ecological systems. Hence, if we want to improve the health of humans and their livestock in a given setting, we need to better understand how behavioural, climatic, cultural, demographic, ecological and socio-cultural factors...

In Chad, as well as in many other African and Asian countries, rabies continues to be endemic. Actions against the infection in humans are limited to providing bitten persons with Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP). However, for long-term rabies control the spread of the disease has to be interrupted...