During this Experience Exchange Workshop on “Digital Engagement and Learning for Veterinary Paraprofessionals” we aim to gather lessons learned and recommendations to inform our project design with regards to: (i) approaches for blended learning using adapted virtual learning solutions for veterinary paraprofessionals, (ii) digital engagement tools to support the daily work of veterinary paraprofessionals (linkages to smallholder farmers, disease surveillance, vaccine supply chain information).

1. Digital engagement briefing for
veterinary paraprofessionals and
their equivalent in the medical
and agricultural sectors
Rosie Herrington
EuFMD. European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease

2. Project Aim:
To improve Veterinary paraprofessionals‘ capacity to deliver essential
animal heath services
VPP Project Presentation
• Digital tool - TOM
• Managed by competent
national authority (VSB).
• Linking smallholders to VPPs
• Linking VPPs to vets and quality
veterinary input suppliers
• Public private multi-stakeholder
platform
• Technical skills: preventive
animal health care
• Business & soft skills
3 KEY PILLARS
Certification Management System: VPP Business Environment:
Competency Based Training :
Competency Framework tool
Blended Learning

3. Background:
How are we best going to design:
o The virtual learning aspect of the
training
o The digital engagement tool for
smallholder farmer outreach &
Veterarinary paraprofessional
linkages with vaccine supply chain
and vet supervision

4. Literature Review Case Study Interviews
Method:

5. Aim not to be exhaustive academic approach but to answer key questions
for our project strategy and also inform basis of this workshop.
1. Are there existing examples of the use of digital tools for the training
of Veterinary Paraprofessionals?
Method:

6. Aim not to be exhaustive academic approach but to answer key questions
for our project strategy and also inform basis of this workshop.
1. Are there existing examples of the use of digital tools for the training
of VPPs?
2. How about more general digital engagement of VPPs and livestock
holders?
Method:

7. Aim not to be exhaustive academic approach but to answer key
questions for our project strategy and also inform basis of this workshop.
1. Are there existing examples of the use of digital tools for the training
of VPPs?
2. How about more general digital engagement of VPPs and livestock
holders?
3. Are there existing examples of the use of digital tools for training
professionals in similar roles to VPPs in the medical
Method:

8. Aim not to be exhaustive academic approach but to answer key
questions for our project strategy and also inform basis of this
workshop.
1. Are there existing examples of the use of digital tools for the training
of VPPs?
2. How about more general digital engagement of VPPs and livestock
holders?
3. Are there existing examples of the use of digital tools for training
professionals in similar roles to VPPs in the medical or agriculture
sectors?
4. What lessons can we learn from previous e-learning initiatives?
Method:

9. 1. Lessons Learned – Availability of Technology
• Use available, useable and sustainable
technology
• Be aware of male control over household
phone ownership
• Be aware of hidden costs associated with
using technology : barrier to access

10. 1. Lessons Learned – Availability of Technology
Example: NCDE Tanzania Clinical Officer
Upgrade Programme
• Tablets provided to local e-learning centres
• Only one participant owned a personal
computer
• Majority reliant on self-funded access at
internet cafes

11. 2. Lessons Learned – Computer Literacy + IT Support
• Assess and tailor training to context specific
computer literacy skills
• Consider training including computer
literacy skills
• Consider how to include on-going IT
support (Joynes, 2014)

12. 2. Lessons Learned – Computer Literacy + IT Support
Example – The Open University for Philippines
Agriculture (OPAPA) e-learning project
• Two day computer literacy program (face to
face) for 10,000 extension workers.
• Followed by distance learning on rice
production techniques.

13. Lessons Learned – Access to and cost of internet/bandwidth
• Simple content to minimize bandwidth use
• E-learning should be customized to meet
local infrastructure: hardware, software,
bandwidth and electricity availability
• Conduct survey before choosing modalities

14. Lessons Learned – Access to and cost of internet/bandwidth
Example: Pacific Paravet Training Project
• Designed a website for mobile use with a
simple structure
• Team recommended creating simple
content to minimize bandwidth
Benefits include:
• Easier to update content on platform
• Cheaper for people who pay per megabyte
• Can be used in poorer connectivity

15. 4. Lessons Learned – Use of Blended Learning
• Students complimented blended learning
and requested further face-to-face contact
• Those with more contact felt more
connected to tutors, other students and
their studies
• Mixture of platforms

16. 4. Lessons Learned – Use of Blended Learning
Example 1 – Amref Kenya Nurse Upgrade
• Four modules, each with a clinical
placement associated.
• Additional 2 weeks of face-to-face tutorial
• 2 telephone tutorials
Example 2 – HEAT Ethiopia
• Monthly face-to-face support sessions near
a local health centre
• 10 student per tutor, in local language and
close to home

17. 5. Lessons Learned – Maintenance of Materials
• Need for continous improvement &
assessment of program as environment
changes
• Structure of resource tailored to allow easy
update of material throughout project
duration

18. 5. Lessons Learned – Maintenance of Materials
Examples: Jan, Mohutsiwa-Dibe &
Loukanova (2014)
• Consider local technical or expert
knoledge on maintenance of
platforms (soft and hardware)
• Consider network losses, cost of
phone maintenance, risk of
loss/theft, local of software flexibility
for updates.

19. 6. Lessons Learned – Engagement/Integration with
Local Health Authorities
• Without a context specific design many
projects fail completely
• Integrate project into present healthcare
system and liaise with Veterinary Statutory
Body
• Partnership key for sustainability
• Syllabus developed with appropriate
professional body

20. 7. Lessons Learned – Training Particulars
• Benefit of programs that link students
together: more enthusiatic and motivated to
learn
• Inter-disciplinary soft skills were requested
from VPPs
• Consider training of trainers model

21. Digital Engagement and Gender
• Gender element to digital
engagement → digital gender
gaps
• More on this during
WOUGNET’s presentation
• Digital gender gaps may
vary between VPPs and
smallholder farmers - level of
education can have more of an
impact in determining digital gaps
than gender.
• Objective: Ensure an inclusive,
intersectional approach to digital
engagement so as not to
unintentionally exclude marginalized
groups including women and youth.
• How: Needs assessment and
participatory rural appraisal to
examine gendered challenges
and adapt digital strategy
accordingly.
For the context of this project:
Taking Gender into account

22. Thank you !
Thank you !
Rosie.Herrington@fao.org

23. The EuFMD / European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease
HOLD-FAST strategy. Foot-and-mouth And Similar Transboundary animal diseases
www.fao.eufmd.org..

24. 1
1
VPP
FAO, WVA, H4A
presentation
October 2021

25. 2
2
WELCOME & INTRODUCTION
Dr. Gabriel Varga
Regional Director Sub Sahara Africa
Zoetis

26. 3
3
Very proud to be part of
this initiative !
Healthier animals are
sustainable animals for
sustainable farming

27. 4
4
Note: Facts and figures shown are as of Dec. 31, 2019 | 1Excludes revenue associated with Client Supply Services, which represented 1% of total 2019 revenue.
27MANUFACTURING
SITES
8CORE
ANIMAL
SPECIES
7
BILLION
$
ANNUAL REVENUE
1,100
APPROXIMATE
R&D COLLEAGUES 300 APPROXIMATE
NUMBER OF
PRODUCT LINES
7MAJOR PRODUCT
CATEGORIES
WE PROVIDE
MEDICINES
VACCINES
DIAGNOSTICS
GENETIC TESTS
BIODEVICES
PRECISION LIVESTOCK FARMING
65+
YEARS OF
EXPERIENCE
100+
COUNTRIES
MARKET PRESENCE IN
11,300
APPROXIMATE COLLEAGUES
WORLDWIDE
OUR FOCUS
51%1 49%1
COMPANION
ANIMAL
HEALTH
LIVESTOCK
HEALTH
3,200
APPROXIMATE
FIELD FORCE
MEMBERS

28. 5
5
INNOVATING ACROSS THE CONTINUUM OF CARE
Genetics
Diagnostics
Data
Analytics
& Sensors
Vaccines, Robotics
& Automation
Medicines

29. 6
6
ZOETIS A.L.P.H.A. INITIATIVE
Zoetis and BMGF have developed a
unique multimillion dollars initiative to
improve livestock farming in Sub Sahara
region over a 5-year period in 4 SSA
countries
BACKGROUND OBJECTIVE
To improve livestock health
and positively impact farmers’
livelihoods in Sub-Saharan
Africa.

30. 7
7
THE A.L.P.H.A INITIATIVE 3 FOCUS AREAS
Registrations to support product availability
>1.7 bln doses of treatment/prevention supplied
Dx labs to support the right diagnosis, therapy and
prevention, PPP approach
Trainings both f2f/digitally to
support the correct use of products
and services, strong gender focus

31. 8
8
ALPHA Diagnostic Partnerships
▪ 16 Dx labs operational
▪ Dx sustainability assessment is done with follow up action plan
▪ LabCards 2.0 release & continuous support of application use. (used
outside of ALPHA region in Zimbabwe and to be introduced to Zambia)
Dx Manager – Niyi Bankole
5 Dx partners 3 public/2 private, 1
well established, others operational
but still in development
80% of focus in Poultry
Dx Manager – Bitsu Mekete
1 Dx partner/private, at the beginning
of the journey
100% of focus in Poultry
Dx Manager – Mwajuma Kudema
5 Dx partners; 3 private, 2 public
(universities); beg-intermediate stage
80% of focus in Poultry
Dx Manager – Francis Kalule
3 Dx partners/4 labs, 1 public/3
private, 3 well established, one is
operational but in development
90% of focus in Ruminant
ACHIEVEMENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS OF DIAGNOSTIC LABS

32. 9
9
Digital innovation – LabCards diagnostics in a pocket
▪ Easy data collection samples on the farm through mobile app
▪ All relevant diseases, test methods and test types built-in
▪ Overview of all sent requests
▪ Convenient onboarding in laboratory
▪ Fast input of results on web portal
▪ Instant sharing of results to veterinarian
▪ Scalable to other species, diseases, test methods and test
types as well as countries
9

33. 10
10
Easy access to LabCards data with visualization
of performance metrics and mapping
Easy-to-understand, real-time data visuals
Easy to filter interesting data from LabCards
Easy to sort these data (and download, export )
Different levels: regional, country, lab …

34. 11
11
EDUCATION
ALPHA Initiative TRAININGS who/what?
Distributors
• Certification via e-
learnings on key topics
Dx lab personnel
(species: poultry, ruminant,
swine)
•Role of Dx services in Farm
management/Vet practices –
detection & prevention
•Poultry ELISA methods &
interpretation
Vets & Paravets
• Continuum of care
predictions detection,
preventions, treatment
• Business/entrepreneurship
trainings
Farmers
• Biosecurity
• Poultry Health
• Diagnostic services
Disease awareness & solutions; specific trainings incl product handling,
storage, application; effective management of farms

35. 12
12
EDUCATION - HOW WE DELIVER TRAININGS
• Face-to-face as well as digital trainings in
ALPHA countries
Local team
members
• Partnership with local NGOs, associations,
Universities, cooperatives, etc
• Pooled Vaccinators
Partnership
• Specialised portals: Docebo, Vetvance,
Velexicon (Bovis)
• YouTube videos
• Webinars/Online trainings
Digital
platforms

36. 13
13
Professionals trained
15% in 2020
During 2019-21
• >22 thousands people trained
• With average 28% female participation
Covid 19 impact
• N of trainings was impacted as majority of
the F-to-F trainings were cancelled
• Trainings were moved to virtual format which
limited access to some target audiences ex.
Farmers
▪ Female participation dropped
• due to lower availability/acceptance of digital
solutions
• timing of the trainings, as majority of them
held in the evenings – busy time with families
COVID 19
outbreak start
Female participation:
37% in 2019 27% in 2021

38. Women of Uganda Network(WOUGNET)
DIGITAL GENDER GAPS IN WOUGNET PROJECTS
AND APROACHES USED TO BRIDGE THE GAPS
By Goretti Amuriat
Program Manager, Gender and ICT Policy Advocacy
Digital Engagement Workshop

39. Presentation Out Line
• About WOUGNET
• Projects implemented by WOUGNET
• Digital gender gaps
• Approaches used to address the gender gaps
• Recommendations
• Conclusions

40. About WOUGNET
• Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) is a non-
governmental organization initiated in May 2000 by
several women’s organizations in Uganda to
develop the use of information and communication
technologies (ICTs) among women as tools to share
information and address issues collectively

41. About WOUGNET Cont’d
WOUGNET Vision
• An inclusive and just society where women and
girls are enabled to use ICTs for sustainable
development.
WOUGNET Mission
• To promote the use of ICTs by women and girls for
gender equality and sustainable development

42. WOUGNET Strategic objectives
• Gender and rights are integrated and enforced in
government ICT policy processes and programs
• Women and girls have access to relevant
information in urban and rural areas
• Communities are empowered to use ICTs and
demand for their digital rights.
• WOUGNET is a strong, vibrant and sustainable
center of Gender and ICT excellence in Uganda

43. About WOUGNET Cont’d
• WOUGNET is a Network organization that works with
like-minded women’s rights organizations and
individuals in Uganda.
• Currently WOUGNET has over 60 members that are
strategically operating nationwide
• WOUGNET advocates for integration of gender and
rights in Policies and Programs, conducts evidence
based research to support her advocacy, shares
relevant information on various digital platforms,
Conducts digital literacy among communities and
empowers community to address their own needs

44. Projects implemented by WOUGNET
• Enhancing Access to Agricultural Information through the
use of Information and Communication Technologies” (EAAI)
that aimed at improving access to agricultural information
to women farmers in Northern Uganda.
• Enhancing income growth among small and micro women
enterpreneurs for economic empowerment implemented
in 3 districts in Uganda ( Apac, Ibanda and Mukono).
• Enhance effective use of ICTs and social media for citizen
engagement with leaders for improved serviced delivery in
Northern Uganda 2018-2019.
• Enhancing Citizenry Engagements to Promote Human
Rights and Accountability in the Service Delivery Framework
using ICTs in three districts in Uganda (Busia, Tororo,
Pallisa)

45. Projects implemented by WOUGNET
• Enhancing Rice-Greengram Productivity in Northern
Uganda. The project involved the introduction of
greengram in the rice cropping system that led to increased
land productivity, improved soil fertility and enhanced
farmer’s income and nutrition among women and youth
farmers in selected districts of northern Uganda.
• “Marker-assisted breeding of selected Native Chicken in
Mozambique and Uganda” with the objective to Increased
quantity and quality of chicken products that will result in
better income and nutrition for farmers in Mozambique,
and Uganda
• Engendering ICT Policy processes in Uganda
• Projects targeted grass roots women farmers and
entepreneurs, leaders, women groups and policy makers

46. Digital gender gaps
• Illiteracy among women
• Digital illiteracy
• Hight cost of digital tools such as Smart phones that
makes it hard for women to acquire
• Language of content disseminated in English
• Patriarchal norms that limit women’s access, control,
use of resources
• High cost of the internet
• Irrelevant content
• Technophobia

47. Digital gender gaps……Cont’d
• Heavy work load/gender responsibilities that limit
time to access and use
• Long Distance from the centers of ICT access
• Women lack confidence
• Low internet penetration
• Un favorable policies such high internet costs, 12% levy
on data
• Misconception or negative mindset about the internet
eg, its immoral
• Online violence experienced

48. Approaches used to address
gaps
• Sensitization/ awareness raising on need to access and use
the digital tools
• Conducted Gender and ICT campaigns among boys and girls
in secondary schools
• Conducted Digital literacy trainings in communities
• Setting up of Information centers in rural communities for
them to acquire knowledge on ICT
• Organizing activities on the time suitable/ agreed upon
• Provide translations in local language
• Provide digital tools such as smart phones and other
tools such as cameras to selected women so as they able
to teach others

49. Approaches used to address
gaps….Cont’d
• Set up Digital access centres near homes
• Sensitize women and girls to access and use internet safely
• Advocate for gender sensitive policies and programs
• Participate in policy review meetings and integrate gender
issues
• Mainstream gender in all our project activities such invite
both men and women for project meetings ( 30 male to 70
female)
• Organize separate meeting for men and women if you want
them to voice out needs
• Economic empowerment of women to enable them be
confident and also afford tools

50. Approaches used to address
gaps….Cont’d
• Sensitize Women and Girls that access and use of
digital tools is their right
• Advocate for favorable policies
• Project activities organized should end early
enough to allow women to do care activities at
home to motivate women to particiapate
• Breast feeding mothers should be allowed to
move with their children and also if possible
provide breastfeeding rooms/changing rooms

51. Recommendations
• Do a gender analysis at the beginning/start of the
project to identify gender issues that might
constrain the project implementation
• Involve men and women in the different
categories to understand the gender issues that
cut through
• Involve different stake holders such as policy
makers, CSOs, program developers, Private
institutions to understand the gender issues
broadly
• Mainstream gender in all project activities and at
all levels

52. Recommendation ……cont’d
• Make the project activities as inclusive as
possible
• Promote equality in access and use of digital tools
• Monitor and evaluate implementation of gender
issues integrated
• Document/report project activities using a
gender perspective

53. Recommendations……… cont’d
• Address existing gender inequalities eg under
representation of women in decision making roles
especially in internet governance.
• Build stronger multi-stakeholder coalition to
advance and promote Women’s right’s online.
• CSO’s and other actors should create/encourage
promotion of online content that reflect women
voices and needs.
• Research alone is not enough; organizations should
sensitize and train communities on meaningful use
of ICT enabled tools.

54. Conclusion
• Gender is key development issue and should be
addressed in project implementation if project is
to be successful
• It is cross cutting and should be examined
among all categories of people.
• Different places experience gender differently,
need to understand the context
• Women are not a homogeneous group so their
digital needs are different and should be examined
that way eg women with disability, rural women,
LGBT women, university girls, illiterate women,
educated women etc

55. Contacts
• Email: Info@wougnet.org
• Website: www.wougnet.org
• Twitter, Facebook: @wougnet

56. Event Mobile Application (EMA-i)
To strengthen animal diseases reporting,
surveillance and early warning
Asma Saidouni, Fairouz Larfaoui, Sabina Ramazzotto
Animal Production and Health Division (NSAH), Join Center for zoonosis and AMR (CJWZ), FAO

57. What is EMA-i
• Mobile App for Veterinary Services to
facilitate quality & real time reporting
of animal diseases from the field
• Integrated into EMPRES-i to safely
store epidemiological data
• Access to disease events in real-time
(“Near me” map)
• Improve communication among
veterinary services, animal health
workers, laboratory experts
• Support Early Warning for an effective
Early Response to disease threats.

58. EMA-i workflow

59. Real-time disease reporting for Early Warning
• EMA-i implemented in 12 countries
(Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Guinea,
Lesotho, Liberia, Mali, Malawi, Uganda, United republic of
Tanzania, Sierra Leone, and Zimbabwe).
• Over 1 200 Users
• Over 19 000 Disease events reported & safely stored in
EMPRES-i
• 26 Training workshops
• 13 First implementation (TOT approach)
• 13 Scaling up workshop
• Weekly reports generated automatically
• Data visualization analysis tool for Monitoring of disease
reporting and Early Warning ➔ Reports for decisions makers
• Developed M&E case study (piloted in Tanzania)

60. EMA-i Results: Tanzania
283
1199
Before EMA-i (countrywide) One year of EMA-i (20 districts)
❑ Number of disease events (Jun 2016 –May 2021): 11501
✓ Mainland (Dec 2017- May 2021): 9 001
✓ Zanzibar: (Jun 2016 –May 2021): 2 503
❑ Implementation :
✓ 5 phases (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)
✓ Number of users: over 200
✓ Districts: 62% (115/185)
GHSA & Emergency Preparedness and Response fund

61. • Expand the use of electronic reporting systems
• Support national policies and regulations through the
institutionalization of Early Warning
• Interoperability:
✓ Laboratory systems: such as SILABFA (ongoing)
✓ Public Health/One Health systems (DHIS2)
✓ Syndromic surveillance systems (Afyadata)
✓ National surveillance systems
✓ International organization WAHIS
• Expand data collection to additional risk factors
• Develop additional Early warning indicators (EMPRES-i +)
• Integrate Disease recognition, EPI definition & best practice on
sampling
• Create a Tele-diagnostic system with use photo library collected
with EMA-i and creation of national, regional and international
experts network (Feedback System).
Next step on Electronic reporting systems with EMA-i

62. Questions & discussion
Food and Agriculture Organisation

63. Technology-aided Program Coordination
Dr Andy Gibson
Director of Strategic Research
Worldwide Veterinary Service

64. Discussion
What experiences do you have in using digital tools for
disease reporting or recording vaccine usage?
Which aspects were key for the success of the role out
of your tool?
What challenges did you face?
Integration of
systems
Data hosting and
access
Functionality &
training

65. SCIENCE POLITICS
IMPLEMENTATION

66. Overview
Technology-aided
dog vaccination
Technology-aided
rabies surveillance

67. Overview
Technology-aided
dog vaccination
Data capture
Geo-communication
Reporting

68. System structure
Geographic instruction
Data entry
BACKEND FRONTEND
“Focus on this
patch” “I vaccinated dogs
here. What next?”
OFFLINE

69. Overview
Data capture
Geo-communication
Reporting
Technology-aided
dog vaccination

70. Evolving data needs
RESEARCH REFINEMENT MASS APPLICATION
[REF 1]

71. Research & development
Restraint method
Ownership
Confinement
Age
Sex
Neuter status

72. Research & development

73. Research & development

74. Optimisation
[REF 5]

75. Evolving data needs
RESEARCH REFINEMENT MASS APPLICATION
[REF 1]

76. Data trade-off
Speed
Detail
Early stage Late stage
pilots
SCALE
Data
priority

77. Data trade-off
2
3
4

78. Overview
Technology-aided
dog vaccination
Data capture
Geo-communication
Reporting

79. Homogenous coverage
[REF 6,7]

80. Technology-aided vaccination
[REF 8]
1,035
vaccination zones
User 2
User 1
User 3

82. Technology-aided vaccination
[REF 8]

84. Post vaccination evaluation
%
VACCINATED

85. Haiti evaluation
Without App Guidance:
• 3,282 dogs vaccinated
• 44% vaccination coverage
With App Guidance:
• 5,873 dogs vaccinated
• 80% vaccination coverage

86. Overview
Technology-aided
dog vaccination
Data capture
Geo-communication
Reporting

87. Team 1
Team 2
Team 3
District X
892
1,039
984
2 3 4 5
2,915
…
1
DAY DAY
Limitations of paper

88. • Aggregated total vaccinations

89. • Aggregated total vaccinations
• by district

90. • Aggregated total vaccinations
• by district
• by commune / EPA

91. • Aggregated total vaccinations
• by district
• by commune / EPA
• by village

92. • Aggregated total vaccinations
• by district
• by commune / EPA
• by village
• by individual vaccination

94. • National vaccinations per week
• National vaccinations per day
• Vaccinations per team per day

95. OVER
2,000,000
DOG
VACCINATION
EVENTS

96. Surveillance
Technology-aided
rabies surveillance

97. Rabies Epidemiology and Case Tracker
?
?
?
?
?
?
?

98. • Customisable high-resolution campaign
data for optimisation
• Improved remote resource direction for
maximum impact on disease transmission
• Transparent reporting
• Intersectoral One Health coordination
Conclusion

99. Thank you
andy@missionrabies.com

100. References
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alternatives for progress based on dog vaccination. Front Vet Sci. 2017;4: 1–14. doi:10.3389/fvets.2017.00009
2. Bonwitt J, Bonaparte S, Blanton J, Gibson AD, Hoque M, Kennedy E, et al. Oral bait preferences and feasibility of oral rabies vaccination in
Bangladeshi dogs. Vaccine. 2020. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.05.047
3. Sánchez-Soriano C, Gibson AD, Gamble L, Burdon Bailey JL, Green S, Green M, et al. Development of a high number, high coverage dog rabies
vaccination programme in Sri Lanka. BMC Infect Dis. 2019;19: 1–12. doi:10.1186/s12879-019-4585-z
4. Gibson AD, Ohal P, Shervell K, Handel IG, Bronsvoort BM, Mellanby RJ, et al. Vaccinate-assess-move method of mass canine rabies vaccination
utilising mobile technology data collection in Ranchi, India. BMC Infect Dis. 2015;15: 589. doi:10.1186/s12879-015-1320-2
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Bali, Indonesia as a Case Study. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2013;7. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0002372
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consequences for the elimination of canine rabies. Sci Rep. 2015;5: 18232. doi:10.1038/srep18232
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teams in numerous rabies control campaigns. PLoS One. 2018;13. doi:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200942
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human rabies deaths. Emerg Infect Dis. 2020;26: E1–E9. doi:10.3201/EID2612.201266
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Infect Dis. 2020;5: 1–22. doi:10.3390/tropicalmed5010047
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12. Gibson AD, Mazeri S, Yale G, Desai S, Naik V, Corfmat J, et al. Development of a Non-Meat-Based, Mass Producible and Effective Bait for Oral
Vaccination of Dogs against Rabies in Goa State, India. Trop Med Infect Dis. 2019;4: 118. doi:10.3390/tropicalmed4030118
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101. Discussion
What experiences do you have in using digital tools for
disease reporting or recording vaccine usage?
Which aspects were key for the success of the role out
of your tool?
What challenges did you face?
Integration of
systems
Data hosting and
access
Functionality &
training

102. Data hosting and
access
Functionality &
training
Integration of
systems