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Pradeep Kumar

30/09/21 10:30 AM IST

National Action Plan for Dog Mediated Rabies Elimination by 2030

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National Action Plan for Dog Mediated Rabies Elimination by 2030 (NAPRE) was unveiled on September 28 by Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare.

National Action Plan for Dog Mediated Rabies Elimination

Aim

The action plan aims to reduce human deaths due to dog-mediated rabies to zero by 2030 through sustained mass dog vaccination and appropriate post-exposure treatment. The vital elements of the strategy are prevention, promotion, and partnership.

Prevention: Introduction of cost-effective public health intervention techniques to improve accessibility, affordability, and availability of post-exposure prophylaxis to all people in need.

Promotion: Improve understanding of rabies through advocacy, awareness, education, and operational research.

Partnership: Provide coordinated support for the anti-rabies drive with the involvement of community, urban and rural civil society, government, private sectors, and international partners.

  • The National Action Plan for dog Mediated Rabies Elimination (NAPRE) has been drafted by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in consultation with the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying.
  • NAPRE’s approach for rabies elimination is based on recommendations of various international agencies such as WHO, OIE, and the Global Alliance of Rabies Control (GARC).
  • It is based on 5 major pillars – political will, sustained funding, intersectoral planning, coordination and review, community planning, and operational research.

Rabies- Status in India

  • Rabies is a vaccine-preventable viral disease that occurs in more than 150 countries and territories. Dogs are the primary source of the vast majority of human rabies deaths, contributing up to 99% of all rabies transmissions to humans.
  • The disease is preventable, however low awareness among people results in fatalities. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a dog bite claims the lives of more than 55,000 people each year, mostly in Asia and Africa.
Source: Newsonair

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