Tanzania, like other malaria endemic countries, has made huge progress in scaling up cost effective preventive & curative interventions for malaria control. At #MalariaForum by Ifakara Health Institute, WHO Tanzania, emphasized its commitment to the achievement of #Zero-malaria in 🇹🇿.

Calling for all Certified Rabies Educators! Be one of the Faces Of Rabies Control and Elimination of FORCE! Join the FORCE now, visit endrabiesnow.org/force-wall #EndRabiesNow #FORCE #Certified

Super proud of our newly minted DR Kennedy Lushasi !! #rabies #ibcm #vivacake #research #thisiswhatascientistlookslike Ifakara Health Institute University of Glasgow @RabiesFreeTZA RabidBites @UofG_SBOHVM

A full version of this article is now online: Integrating contact tracing and whole-genome sequencing to track the elimination of dog-mediated rabies: An observational and genomic study doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

Was such a joy to chat with Thumbi Gowri Yale from Mission Rabies & Dr Elly Hiby from ICAM on this United Against Rabies podcast! Fantaatic news from @Gavi motivating action to #EndRabiesNow #ZeroBy30

IHI rabies team &National Institute for Medical Research Ethics Committee (NatHREC) members visited Morogoro. They met with health & veterinary workers involved in rabies control for the ethics review. We appreciate NatHREC's vital work & all fighting this fatal zoonotic disease

COLLABORATION: Global partnership for Rift Valley Fever vaccine unveiled Great news! - CEPI and UC Davis have partnered to advance human trials for a promising #RiftValleyFever vaccine candidate. This global collaboration involves an investment of $28.5M to test the

Did you know, the grazing habits of kudu make them especially vulnerable to rabies?  Find out more from Dr Rauna Athingo, Chief Veterinarian, Namibia in the latest episode of #RabiesToday, hosted by Professor Katie Hampson  unitedagainstrabies.org/news/rabies-to…

An estimated 59,000 people die from #rabies each year. 40% of those are children. We are committed to support the scale-up of rabies vaccinations and increase access to this essential vaccine. #WorldRabiesDay2023 📷 Mission Rabies

🤝 ENGAGEMENT: Stakeholders draw roadmap for human rabies vaccines 💉 Today, Ifakara Health Institute in collaboration with University of Glasgow, hosted a Rabies Elimination Stakeholders’ hybrid Meeting in Dodoma. The primary objective of this gathering was to introduce Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance's plan to provide

Proud and thrilled to have you join us Fredros Okumu - exciting times ahead for @UofG_SBOHVM and VectorsGlasgow!

Super excited to share our paper on using #facialrecognition to identify #dogs during #rabies vaccination campaigns! nature.com/articles/s4159… @UofG_SBOHVM Ifakara Health Institute Katie Hampson RabidBites Felix Lankester Maganga Sambo, PhD. Kennedy Lushasi Changalucha, Joel WSU Global Health

This July, the application window for countries to apply for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance support for human rabies vaccines opens! Ifakara Health Institute KEMRI-Wellcome This is a massive opportunity to prevent human rabies deaths & catalyse action to #EndRabiesNow ! More info 👇

Submit your Abstract before deadline Deadline: 15, September, 2024 Follow the link to submit 🔗 event.pmo.go.tz #AfyaMojaPamoja #TOHC2024 #OneHealth

Domestic dogs drive rabies dynamics in Tanzania, but spillover & spread in jackals is common. 🐕 Vaccinating dogs controls rabies in dogs & wildlife but needs to be sustained to stop stop resurgence & protect humans, domestic animals & wildlife Kennedy Lushasi

WOHC2024 🗓️ 22 September ➡️ #MarginalizedCommunities and #OneHealth Felix Lankester @wsuglobalhealth @aniaczupryna @uofg_sbohvm MSD Animal Health 🗣️Continuous community-led dog vaccination strategies improve rabies vaccination coverage #rabiesresearch

Thank you so much Martha Luka. credit to the World One Health Congress for opportunity to share our findings. Let us work together to End Rabies Now. United Against Rabies Katie Hampson Maganga Sambo, PhD.

DISSEMINATION: Ifakara shares rabies research at 8th World One Health Congress 📍✈️ @Ifakarahealth’s rabies research team took part in the 8th World One Health Congress (World One Health Congress) in Cape Town! 🇿🇦 They shared their findings on rabies transmission in Southeast Tanzania with

POLICY: Improving rabies vaccine supply in Tanzania 💉 📄 Rabies claims 800 lives yearly in Tanzania. @Ifakarahealth’s new policy brief shows how to improve access to life-saving Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP), a treatment given after potential rabies exposure to prevent the

CASE STUDY: Experts highlight simple, effective ways for rabies control in 🇹🇿 Rabies can be eliminated with sustained dog vaccinations! A case study by University of Oxford, Ifakara Health Institute, University of Glasgow, and WSU Pullman, reports how the One Health approach which involves multi-sectoral