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World Rabies Day 2025: the time to act is now!
The theme of WRD 2025 is here! “Act Now: You, Me, Community”, calls on individuals and communities to take action now to eliminate rabies. The theme reminds us that together, we can drive real change through vaccination, education, and advocacy.
Communities Against Rabies: Bringing global efforts together
Launched in 2023, GARC’s Communities Against Rabies (CAR) initiative empowers individuals and organizations working towards rabies elimination. Through education, digital tools, and by establishing Rabies Centers of Excellence, CAR fosters coordinated, community-driven action to create a world free from dog rabies.
Are you our next Rabies Center of Excellence?
We need organizations committed to rabies elimination to become recognized Rabies Centers of Excellence (RCEs). As a GARC RCE you will gain access to expert support, digital tools, educational resources, and international exposure. By joining this global network as an RCE, you can collaborate more effectively and inspire others to act now for a rabies-free world.
GARC joins Rabies Awareness Month in the Philippines
During Rabies Awareness Month in the Philippines, GARC educated more than 1,600 schoolchildren in Los Baños and trained 40 Barangay Health Workers in Capas as certified Rabies Educators. These efforts highlight the importance of collaboration and education at all levels of society in the global fight to eliminate rabies.
Kerenza Chats with Champions: Dr. Rey Del Napoles on changing mindsets and eliminating rabies
Dr. Rey Del Napoles shares his journey in rabies control, highlighting the power of education in changing mindsets. He recalls a man who, after attending an awareness session, not only brought his dog for neutering and vaccination but also encouraged his neighbor to do the same. These small yet impactful shifts in behavior are key to building safer, healthier communities and ultimately eliminating rabies.
April 2025: GARC Data Platform Featured User
The GARC Data Platform featured user for April 2025 is another recognized Rabies Center of Excellence (RCE) – The BIG FIX Uganda. As this month’s featured user, The BIG FIX Uganda highlights how the Platform has helped them to keep track of the animals that they have vaccinated since 2022, as well as how keeping track of vaccinated animals helped them to plan more strategically for future events.
March 2025: GARC Data Platform Featured User
It is a privilege to announce that the featured GARC Data Platform user for March 2025 is Thailand-based Soi Dog Foundation. As an organization that runs one of the largest Catch, Neuter, Vaccinate, Return (CNVR) programs globally, comprehensive real-time programmatic data is paramount. Since 2023, the Global Alliance for Rabies Control has been supporting Soi Dog Foundation with the use of the GARC Data Platform to plan and coordinate their sterilization and vaccination campaigns across one third of the entire country.
Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines launches an innovative IBCM program, supported by GARC
A worrying increase in recent human rabies cases across the Philippines has resulted in the launch of a new and innovative large-scale IBCM program in the Cordillera Administrative Region. This new program will use the GARC Data Platform to help capture, analyze, report and notify all stakeholders in a truly One Health manner to ensure effective intervention and, ultimately, the elimination of rabies.
Data-driven champions: Featured users of the GARC Data Platform
As part of our ongoing efforts to highlight the stakeholders that are leading rabies elimination efforts at the community level, we have started a new initiative to promote the work of the organizations using the GARC Data Platform around the world. Read more about this initiative and our first three featured Platform users.