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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.
MOU_Rabies_PAHO-ARC_eng.htm

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.
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REDIPRA: Meetings of Directors of National Programs for Rabies Control in Latin America
The objectives of these biennial meetings are: (a) Review the strategies for the regional plan to prevent human rabies. (b) Produce recommendations to the countries and to PAHO/WHO for the completion of the elimination process. (c) Reinforce bonds of solidarity. (d) Develop cooperation projects among the countries for rabies elimination. This pages provides access to REDIPRA meeting reports and other PAHO/WHO inforamtion on rabies.
redipra.htm

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!
wrd-2008.htm

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.
wrd-2008-award-eng.pdf

CD48/19-RIMSA15

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.
guia-jornadas-antirrabicas.htm

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.
WHO

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.
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Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention and Control at PAHO
This page describes the PAHO Technical Area for Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention and Control(HSD), its mission and objectives, what it does in terms of projects and activities. It contains links to the four technical groups and the Pan American Center under its umbrella. Note: Prior to June 2006, the Area was named Disease Prevention and Control.
dpc-page.htm

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.
vet-news-2008-2-4.pdf

VPH News: Communication Channel of the PAHO Veterinary Public Health Unit
The purpose of this newsletter is to establish an open channel for the participation of all interested parties, as a bridge for a productive and participative management of veterinary public health issues. It contains information on progress and developments, events and activities, information resources, etc.
vet-news.htm

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.
PLOSNTDs

RIMSA 15: Inter-American Meeting at Ministerial Level on Health and Agriculture (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 11–12 June 2008)
Comprehensive new site: PAHO will once again hold its biennial meeting where ministers of health and agriculture discuss common concerns related to animal diseases, diseases transmitted to human by animals, and agricultural/livestock production and food safety. This year's theme is Agriculture and Health: Alliance for Equity and Rural Development in the Americas.
PANAFTOSA

RIMSA: Inter-American Meeting, at Ministerial Level, on Health and Agriculture
RIMSA stands for Inter-American Meeting in Health and Agriculture at Ministerial Level. It is the only regional forum for collaboration and coordination among the health and agricultural sectors, at the highest political level. PAHO counts on this meeting to development technical cooperation in the area of Veterinary Public Health. This page provides an overview of RIMSA and its documentation.
rimsa-home.htm

RIMSA 14: Index of Documents
Index of documents presented at RIMSA 14.
rimsa14index-e.htm

Rabies Surveillance Guidelines
This page provides access to essential information on rabies surveillance: case definition, recommended types of surveillance (what to do when), treatment guide, and links to the information systems that offer data on rabies in the countries of the Americas and Region-wide.
rabia-vigilancia.htm

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
ARC

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).
Rabid Bytes

An ACHIEVABLE DREAM: Eliminating some Diseases from the Region
"When envisioning the future of public health in the Americas, we can and should dare to dream of victories that greatly benefit all citizens and have a real impact on the human development levels of our peoples.
Eliminating certain illnesses or diseases that still afflict our peoples even though we possess the knowledge and tools with which to make them virtually disappear is one of those achievable dreams."
RosesArticle_DiseaseE_eng.htm

World Rabies Day: 8 September 2007
"Working together to make rabies history!" This is the slogan for the first World Rabies Day. The website below tells all about the initiative and offers logos and a campaign presentation and brochure, as well as a series of PAHO videos to be used in community events; and it links to the main website where more information can be found and to articles covering the event, plus outcomes.
wrd-2007.htm

An Achievable Dream: Eliminating Some Diseases from the Americas
In this speech, PAHO Director Dr. Mirta Roses outlines a set of communicable diseases--vector-borne, zoonotic, viral, bacterial and parasitic--that can be eliminated or significantly reduced by 2015 at the regional, subregional, or national level.
PAHO Director

Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Rabies in the Americas, 2005–2009
The goal of this regional plan is to prevent avoidable rabies cases. Its objectives are to complete the process of eliminating human rabies transmitted by dogs and reduce the risk of human rabies transmitted by other species. This page offers a summary and access to the full text in Spanish, plus links to other PAHO/WHO information on rabies.
rabia-plan-05-09.htm

Haiti: Meeting on Rabies Planning (11-13 December 2007)
This meeting was organized within the framework of ‘technical cooperation among countries’ (TCC) to “Strengthen activities for the control of dog-transmitted human rabies in Haiti” in collaboration with Haiti, Cuba, Brazil, Canada, and the Dominican Republic. This five-page report summarizes the context, regional and national situation, national plan, field visits, and exchange of experiences among the partners.
RepMtgRabiesPlanningHAI-ENG.pdf

VPH News (Year 1, No. 2, September/October 2007)
This issue covers: Information, Knowledge and Responsibility; Russian Mission Evaluates the Brazilian Veterinary Public Service, Visits of the General Director of the WHO and of the Representative of OIE; Manual on FMD; PANAFTOSA at CONBRAVET, Animal Welfare, Avian Influenza, Agriculture and Rural Life in the Americas, Animal Protection, Quality of Food in Paraguay; Course on Control of Wild Rabies; Acknowledgements, Great Cross, Commander Medal, Merit; World Rabies Day; Day of the Veterinarian.
vet-news-2007-1-2.pdf

CSP27.R10: Regional Policy and Strategy for Ensuring Quality of Health Care, Including Patient Safety
This resolution from the 27th Pan American Sanitary Conference in 2007 sets forth the PAHO mandate for providing effective, safe, efficient, accessible, appropriate, and satisfactory care for users, recognizing that policies are needed in the health sector that will impact the health care continuum, foster citizen involvement, and promote a culture of quality and safety in health care institution.
CSP27.R10

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.
monica.pdf

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,
Monica and Her Gang

PAHO Regional Program on Zoonoses
This page describes the mission and areas of work of the PAHO Regional Program on Zoonoses, which deals with animal health, animal attacks, diseases transmitted by animals, livestock issues, etc.
zoonosis-program-page.htm

VPH News: (Year 1, No. 1, July 2007)
This month's contents: Workshop in Chile/Argentina; Dominican Republic: Healthy Markets Project; Brazilian Program for the Eradication of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD); Communication Training Seminar for the Development and Information on Prevention of Highly Pathogenous Avian Influenza in the Andean Region and Central America; Recent Activities (Official Missions); First Course on the Control of Wild Rabies (D. rotundus) in Brazil; Project BID-PANAFTOSA-PAHO/WHO Program of Regional System for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) within the Enlarged MERCOSUR; Integration between Health and Agriculture— Pandemic Avian and Human Grippe: Attending to the Need of Integration of Health and Agriculture in the Preparation of Programs in Latin America; Colombia: Group Established to Support Government in Food Safety Evaluation, Progress Made in FMD-Free Status, and Construction of Biosecurity Level 3A Laboratory at CEISA. (Newsletter name changed 9/2007 from News: Veterinary Public Health to SPV News)
vet-news-2007-1-1.pdf

PAHO Regional Program on Epidemic Alert and Response: Working to Deal with Outbreaks in the Americas
This page describes the mission and areas of work of the PAHO Regional Program on Epidemic Alert and Response, mainly responsible for emerging and reemerging infectious diseases, disease outbreak management, implementation of the revised International Health Regulations (IHR [2005]), assessment of national surveillance capacity, and related issues.
ear-program-page.htm

Elimination of Dog-Transmitted Human Rabies in Latin America: Situation Analysis
This book contains the results of a regional project involving 21 countries. It includes chapters devoted to the results of each of them, along with regional data. For each country and the region as a whole, there are sections on the epidemiological situation and control activities. It also contains a variety of maps and graphs illustrating the situation. This page provides access to the entire book or to the separate chapters, by country.
rabia-sit.htm

Rabies Home: About Rabies; Frequently Asked Questions, the Rabies Virus, Natural History, Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Prevention & Control, Bats & Rabies, Kids Rabies Home Page, References, Resources, Links)
This basic resource page from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States offers provides basic information on rabies in the areas shown above. Rabies is a fatal infectious viral disease that affects the nervous system of humans and other mammals. People get rabies from the bite of an animal with rabies (a rabid animal). Any wild mammal, like a raccoon, skunk, fox, coyote, or bat, can have rabies and transmit it to people. It is also possible, but quite rare, that people may get rabies if infectious material from a rabid animal, such as saliva, gets directly into their eyes, nose, mouth, or a wound. However, people can be successfully after being bitten by an animal that may have rabies. Because rabies is a fatal disease
CDC

Rabies (WHO Fact Sheet No. 99)
This official WHO fact sheet provides basic information on rabies, a zoonotic viral disease which infects domestic and wild animals. It is transmitted to other animals and humans through close contact with saliva from infected animals (i.e. bites, scratches, licks on broken skin and mucous membranes). Once symptoms of the disease develop, rabies is fatal to both animals and humans. The first symptoms of rabies are usually non-specific and suggest involvement of the respiratory, gastrointestinal and/or central nervous systems. In the acute stage, signs of hyperactivity (furious rabies) or paralysis (dumb rabies) predominate. In both furious and dumb rabies, paralysis eventually progresses to complete paralysis followed by coma and death in all cases, usually due to respiratory failure. Without intensive care, death occurs during the first seven days of illness. Prevention of human rabies must be a community effort involving both veterinary and public health officials. Rabies elimination programmes focused mainly on mass vaccination of dogs are largely justified by the future savings of discontinuing prevention programmes. However, until canine rabies is eliminated or at least well controlled, safer and more economical post-exposure treatments for humans are a desirable alternative to the use of nerve tissue vaccines.
WHO

Expert Consultation: Rabies Transmitted by Vampire Bats in the Amazon Region (Brasilia, 10-11 October 2006)
The goal of this meeting is to strengthen systems to prevent vampir-bat-transmitted rabies in the Amazon by establishing an Amazonian Plan to Prevent Wildlife Rabies. Objectives are to establish coordination mechanisms for technical cooperation on rabies prevention in the Amazon; generate recommendations on risk mitigation; and promote multidisciplinary and multisectoral measures for the surveillance, prevention and control of bat rabies. This page contains the executive summary and access the presentations and full-text report, plus photos and links.
rabia-murcielagos.htm

CD47.R18: Health of the Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
Taking note of the existence of inequities in health and access to health care services that affect more than 45 million indigenous people living in the Americas; and because the United Nations Millennium Declaration cannot be reached unless the specific health needs of excluded populations, such as indigenous peoples, are addressed, this resolution of the 47th PAHO Directing Council in 2006 sets for the mandate to take a multicultural approach to include these groups and work towards greater equity and better health for all.
CD47.R18

Communicable Disease Prevention and Control at PAHO: Aims, Strategies and Lines of Action
This page summarizes the mission, objectives, strategies and lines of action of the PAHO Communicable Disease Unit and describes what it hopes to accomplish through technical cooperation.
cd-unit-page.htm

Veterinary Public Health at PAHO
This page provides general information on PAHO's activities in the area of veterinary public health and its strategies to face current issues and challenges involving zoonoses, foodborne diseases and food safety. It also provides information and links for the Veterinary Public Health Unit, newly relocated to its regional center in Brazil, and to international partners.
vp-unit-page.htm

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.
CDC

International Travel and Health
This page links to WHO information related to international travel, helping to orient travellers as to the situation regarding disease prevalence or outbreaks in a given country and what precautions they should take. It provides an index by country, related links, and information on relevant publications.
WHO

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.
PANAFTOSA

Regional Events Directory, Veterinary Public Health
This list shows upcoming events in the area of veterinary public health, zoonoses, and animal health. It is kept updated by the Veterinary Public Health Virtual Library (VHS) of the Pan American Center for Foot-and-Mouth Disease (PANAFTOSA).
PANAFTOSA

Epidemiological Bulletin, Vol. 26, No. 1 (2005)
Health Analysis: - Epidemiologic Situation of Human Rabies in Latin America in 2004 Methodological Notes in Epidemiology: - Methods for measuring health inequalities (Part II) - From sketch to digital maps: GIS-DDT Norms and Standards in Epidemiology: - Maternal and Congenital Syphilis: Case Definitions
be_v26n1-cover.htm EB_v26n1.pdf

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.
rimsa-14.htm rimsa-14.pdf

RIMSA14/INF/1-Report of the 10th Meeting of Directors of the National Programs for Control of Rabies in LA (REDIPRA 10))
Related to Agenda item 12 for RIMSA 14, Mexico City, Mexico, 21-22 April 2005.
rimsa14-inf1-e.pdf

Regional Core Health Data System - Indicators Glossary
Definition, technical note, type, measure units, categories, and subcategories for each indicator in the Regional Core Health Data System
glossary.htm

Frequently Asked Questions on the Proposed Revision of the International Health Regulations (IHRs)
These 21 questions have been made available to the countries for the revision process of the International Health Regulations (IHRs) currently in progress. The revisions will be discussed and ratified during the upcoming World Health Assembly in May 2005.
WHO: IHR FAQs

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 16—22 April 2004
This issue is dedicated to a report on an outbreak of acute diarrheal syndrome and two identified cases of cholera in the municipality of São Bento do Una, Pernambuco State, Brazil; and to a follow-up on the recent outbreak of bat-transmitted human rabies in Pará State, Brazil.
eid-eer-22-apr-2004.htm

EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 15—15 April 2004
This issue is dedicated to a follow-up on the recent outbreak of bat-transmitted human rabies in Pará State, Brazil, and to an updated list of electronic information sources (e.g. epidemiological bulletins) on the occurrence and distribution of communicable diseases in the countries of the Americas.
eid-eer-15-apr-2004.htm

Rabies
This page offers the user a panoramic view of all PAHO materials on rabies, a zoonotic disease fatal to humans. The documents are organized according to the following categories: surveillance, prevention and control, PAHO activities, Other PAHO Materials, and General Information/Links. It also contains a listing of featured items for all categories with the most important documents from each, and a side bar containing frequently requested items, upcoming events, and/or new books.
rabia.htm

Evaluation Methodology: Elimination of Human and Dog Rabies in Latin America
This page allows the user to download the CD-ROM produced for the countries participating in a regional study to compile basic data for analyzing the epidemiological situation of rabies in Latin America and for defining control strategies.
rabia-prog-elim-cd.htm

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.
VHL 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.
PANAFTOSA/SIRVERA

SIEPI Epidemiological Information System
This epidemiological database contains prevalence data for the Americas on rabies. It is maintained by the Pan American Center for Foot-and-Mouth Disease (PANAFTOSA)
SIEPI

CD44.R6: Primary Health Care in the Americas: Lessons Learned over 25 Years and Future Challenges
This resolution from the 44th PAHO Directing Council in 2003, taking into consideration the Declaration of Alma-Ata and past PAHO resolutions, sets forth the mandate of improving the quality of primary care in the Americas: more equitable access to health services, improved surveillance and information systems in this context, improved training for healthcare workers, a health promotion approach, better policy implementation, local community-based approaches and models, working towards the Millennium Development Goals, etc.
CD44.R6

WHO, List of Links on Communicable Diseases (by topic)
This list of links gives the user direct access to the main WHO pages on the various communicable diseases or on themes related to them.
cd-who-links.htm

Zoonoses / Animal Health
This page offers the user a panoramic view of all PAHO materials on animal health and zoonoses (i.e. diseases that people can get from animals). The documents are organized according to the following categories: surveillance, prevention and control, PAHO activities, Other PAHO Materials, and General Information/Links. It also contains a listing of featured items for all categories with the most important documents from each, and a side bar containing frequently requested items, upcoming events, and/or new books.
zoonosis.htm

Strategic Alliance IICA/PAHO for Human Development and Prosperity in Rural Communities
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), both aware of the need to pool their capabilities in support of efforts to promote the development of their Member States, have decided to work more closely and systematically together in contributing to human development and prosperity in the rural communities of the Americas. This page, in brochure form, summarizes the collaboration of the two organizations.
paho-iica.htm

RIMSA13/4 - Proposed Action Plan for the Pan American Foot-and-Mouth Disease Center (PANAFTOSA), 2004-2005
Provisional Agenda item 6 for the 13th RIMSA
rimsa13-04-e.pdf

WHO Disease Outbreak News
This link provides access to the latest WHO updates and archives on disease outbreaks throughout the world.
WHO

Bulletin of the Pan American Foot-and-Mouth Disease Center
This issue of the PANAFTOSA bulletin, from the Pan American Foot-and-Mouth Disease Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, assigned the task of research and monitoring of foot-and-mouth disease and other zoonotic diseases. This issue contains four relevant journal articles, 22 abstracts of related articles, a bibliography on vesicular diseases, and more. This page offers access to each section in PDF files. The bulletin is published in three languages: English, Spanish and Portuguese.
boletin-aft-64-67.htm

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 . If you would like to buy a copy of the book visit the Bookstore .

XIth Inter-American Meeting, at the Ministerial Level, on Animal Health (RIMSA) (Washington, D.C., 13–15 April 1999)
This page provides access to the documentation proceeding from this regional biennial RIMSA meeting. It contains documents related to animal health and food safety. Its greatest relevance is in the formulation of health policy in the Region.
rimsa11index-e.htm

Regional Program for the Elimination of Urban Rabies: Report on the Evaluation of the 1980-1989 Decade
In December 1983, at RIMSA 3, the Rabies Program Directors from the Latin American countries called together by PAHO/WHO agreed to establish the Regional Program for the Elimination of Urban Rabies in the major urban centers of Latin America, by the end of the 1980s. This document contains the PAHO Resolution followed by the report, which provides in detail the level of compliance with that objective, as well as an overall vision on how the regional strategies were developed.
rimsa7-urban-rabies.pdf