NATIONAL ACTION PLAN FOR DOG MEDIATED RABIES ELIMINATION

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• The Ministers urged all the States and UTs to make Rabies a notifiable Disease. They also launched “Joint Inter-Ministerial Declaration Support Statement” for Elimination of Dog mediated Rabies from India by 2030 through One Health Approach.
  
  
• Villagers in India refer to the disease as ‘Hadakwa’ unfamiliar with the English name. The mere mention of ‘Hadakwa’ induces terror in rural areas. They advised the senior officials present to use the more familiar term ‘Hadakwa’ in popularizing the activities to be taken up under the Plan.
  
  
• Rabies is 100% fatal but 100% vaccine preventable. 33% of global rabies deaths are recorded in India.