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Announcements
Memorandum of Understanding between the Alliance for Rabies Control and the Pan American Health Organization
Washington, D.C. PAHO HQ. 24 June 2009.- Dr. Mirta Roses Periago, PAHO Director signed a memorandum of understanding between PAHO/WHO and the Alliance for Rabies Control (ARC), through their Executive Director, Deborah J Briggs; which outline their plan for cooperative activities to promote rabies prevention, surveillance, control and elimination.(26/Jun/2009)
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World Rabies Day: 28 September 2008--Working together to make rabies history!
World Rabies Day is now a permanent event to occur every September 28. This resource page covers the 2008 event with a description and a link to the main event website with all multilingual materials for the global campaign, community education and teaching materials (including videos), as well as links to available information on rabies in the Americas. NEW: Win a Certificate of Achievement plus a US$ 1,000 prize!(25/Sep/2008)
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Award for the Three Best Rabies Prevention and Control Events in Latin America and the Caribbean for World Rabies Day 2008
The event you hold this year for World Rabies Day 2008 will qualify you to compete for a PAHO certificate and a US$ 1000 cash prize from the Alliance for Rabies Control and WRD for your event next year. See the flyer for details.(8/Sep/2008)
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Books
Final Report and Proceedings: 14th Inter-American Meeting, at the Ministerial Level, on Health and Agriculture (RIMSA 14) (Mexico City, Mexico, 21–22 April 2005)
This 312-page publication-quality e-book offers the complete proceedings of PAHO's biennial high-level meeting of the health and agricultural sectors, with an intersectoral approach to such issues as zoonotic diseases, food safety, livestock production, rural development, etc. The HTML page offers the preface and resolutions plus the full text in PDF.(22/Apr/2005)
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Disaster Chronicles: El Niño 1997-1998 (only in Spanish)
Now that we are in a period "between Niños," it would be extremely useful to revisit the 1997/1998 phenomenon and draw from the experiences and lessons learned, so we can better prepare ourselves for the next episode. This book, available only in Spanish, is a technical and institutional retrospective of El Niño's effect on the health sector, showing the extent to which the 1997/1998 El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) affected daily life and public health in most Latin American countries.
To access the book in full-text visit
Crónicas de desastres: Fenómeno El Niño
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If you would like to buy a copy of the book visit the
Bookstore .(19/Sep/2000)
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Databases
PANAFTOSA Bibliographical Database, Veterinary Public Health Virtual Library (VHS)
The Veterinary Public Health Virtual Library (VHL) of the Pan American Center for Foot-and-Mouth Disease (PANAFTOSA) is the main repository for PAHO information on veterinary public health and zoonotic diseases. Its bibliographical database on scientific literature provides not only the reference but also an abstract and access to the downloadable full texts in PDF.(19/Sep/2005)
In English PANAFTOSA
en español PANAFTOSA
em Português PANAFTOSA
Virtual Library in Veterinary Public Health (VHL PANAFTOSA)
The goal of the Virtual Health Library in Veterinary Public Health of the Pan American Center for Foot-and-Mouth Disease is to facilitate user access to different virtual information resources in the area of veterinary public health, at the national (i.e. in the countries) and international level.(16/Jan/2004)
In English VHL PANAFTOSA
en español BVS PANAFTOSA
em Português BVS PANAFTOSA
SIRVERA - Regional Information System of Epidemiological Surveillance of Rabies in the Americas
This database provides access to information on rabies in the countries of the Americas and at the regional level. It is located at the Pan American Center for Foot-and-Mouth Disease (PANAFTOSA) in Rio de Janeiro, which offers other databases as well.(1/Jan/2004)
In English PANAFTOSA/SIRVERA
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Eliminación de la rabia canina transmitida por perros
Este video de cinco minutos y medio comunica la seriedad de la rabia como enfermedad mortal y los logros que se han hecho en la Región para eliminar la rabia transmitida por perros, es decir, la forma historicamente más común, a través de educación y programas de vacunación masiva.(13/Mar/2008)
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Monica's Gang: Down with Rabies!
This special comic book with the popular figure Monica is the result of a collaborative effort between PAHO and its authors. Its goal is to educate children about rabies and how to prevent putting themselves at risk. Children are the group most vulnerable to animal attacks and of contracting the disease.(8/Aug/2007)
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Monica and Her Gang: Caring for Your Pet
This four-part video disguises a public service announcement under the guise of a video designed for children, done in collaboration with the PAHO Veterinary Public Health Unit. It focuses on rabies prevention. The four parts are Prevent Dog Attacks, A Happy Puppy, I Want a Puppy, and Vaccinate Your Pets,(1/Aug/2007)
In English Monica and Her Gang
en español Mónica y sus amigos
em Português A turma de Mônica
Other Resources
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal Published by the Public Library of Science
This free online journal offers articles covering the broad spectrum of neglected diseases, including geohelminths, river blindness, snail fever, Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, filariasis, and other diseases of the poor that are often neglected by health systems, the pharmaceutical industry, and the press.(28/May/2008)
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The Alliance for Rabies Control (ARC)
The Alliance for Rabies Control (ARC), with which PAHO collaborates, was created to alleviate the burden of rabies across the world by promoting and implementing rabies control, prevention and education programmes whilst accounting for animal welfare and conservation issues--while always keeping in mind that rabies is a disease that can be both prevented and controlled. Newsletter: Rabid Bytes(27/Feb/2008)
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Travelers' Health
This information published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States (CDC, a PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center), helps orient travelers on anything they should know and precautions they should take when travelling to a given country.(23/Mar/2006)
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Periodical Publications
Epidemiological Alerts Archives, 2003–2008
(Note: Series renamed, formerly EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas.)
The purpose of these alerts is to disseminate information on the latest public-health events that have been identified as risks to health, trade, and/or international travel. Most of these events are primarily due to infectious agents, while others are due to chemical or physical agents. The PAHO Epidemiological Alerts published at the regional level (for the Americas) complement the WHO Disease Outbreak News published at the global level. The latest issues can be found at the new site, 2009 onwards.(3/Apr/2009)
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VPH News (Year 2, No. 4, May 2008)
In this issue: RIMSA 15; PANAFTOSA-PAHO/WHO welcomes countries at the 35th COSALFA meeting; PANAFTOSA-PAHO/WHO promotes animal health training; PANALIMENTOS: Security and food safety; Research and Development: II National Seminar on Hantavirus advanced research; STD/AIDS: Congress discusses fights against STD and AIDS; First Conference on Health Innovation is held in Brazil; Food-and-mouth disease: Emergency Simulation in Paraguay; SENACSA; PWR-Chile: Rabies situation; Book launch and articles; Visits to PANAFTOSA-PAHO/WHO; Cooperation: Fight against animal rabies, agreement for the creation of a laboratory network; Visit of Dr. Mirta Roses, partnership between PAHO and the city where PANAFTOSA-PAHO/WHO has its headquarters.(31/May/2008)
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Rabid Bytes: Newsletter of the Alliance for Rabies Control (ARC)
This link to the Rabid Bytes home page provides automatic electronic subscription and access to present and past issues. PAHO collaborates with the Alliance for Rabies Control (ARC).(27/Feb/2008)
In English Rabid Bytes
en español Rabid Bytes
Technical Documents
Guide for Organizing Large-Scale Dog Rabies Vaccination Days
The purpose of this Guide is to construct an instrument that permits (1) staff members from Public Health Services to obtain systematized information to guide them on how to organize, carry out, and evaluate vaccination campaign activities; and (2) explicitly indicate the role of the various institutional and social actors--be they public or private, from the national, intermediate, municipal, or local level--in the different phases or stages of vaccination campaigns to definitively interrupt the circulation of the rabies virus in the canine population. This page gives a summary and access to the full text in Spanish.(31/Aug/2008)
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BVS
Current WHO Guide for Rabies Pre- and Post-Exposure Treatment in Humans
This 24-page handbook from WHO/CSR serves as a quick reference handbook with clinical guidelines for providing treatment to persons exposed to rabies.(6/Aug/2008)
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PPT
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PPT
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PPT
International Health Regulations (IHR)
The International Health Regulations are an international legal instrument that covers measures for preventing the transnational spread of infectious diseases. The newly adopted IHR (2005) has as purpose and scope “to prevent, protect against, control and provide a public health response to the international spread of disease in ways that are commensurate with and restricted to public health risks, and which avoid unnecessary interference with international traffic and trade”. This page provides a detailed description and information on progress of its implementation, plus relevant links.(24/Jun/2008)
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