Activities in Asia and the Pacific - WOAH

The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH, founded as OIE) Regional Representation for Asia and the Pacific and Sub-Regional Representation for South East Asia have been spearheading many activities on rabies control in animals to support the elimination of dog-mediated human rabies in the Asia Pacific Region. The organisation supports its Members in areas of capacity building (e.g., laboratory diagnostics training in collaboration with WOAH Reference Centers), intersectoral coordination enhancement, and access provision to its rabies vaccine bank.

Sub-regional Meetings (Regional Tripartite)

We have organised key events on rabies in collaboration with the regional tripartite and other partners.

Webinar on Mass Dog Vaccination Methods and Tools for Rabies Elimination in the SAARC Region, 29-30 March 2021
SAARC Rabies Webinar, 18-20 May 2020
SAARC Tripartite Rabies Meeting, Kathmandu, Nepal, 26-28 June 2019
Tripartite ASEAN Rabies Meeting, Hanoi, Vietnam, 4-6 December 2018

Activities conducted in collaboration with Reference Laboratories

Activities with the Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries Sciences University

Sub-regional training workshop on animal rabies diagnosis for South Asia, 18-21 Jan 2023
Regional Training of Trainers Workshop on Mass Dog Vaccination, 28 Nov 2022
Virtual Workshop on a Proposed South Asia Rabies Laboratory Network, 14 Jul 2022
Virtual Training Series on Rabies Serology for SAARC Region, 11-13 Oct 2021
Virtual Training Series on Rabies Diagnosis for SAARC Region 4-5 Nov 2020

Activities with the Changchun Veterinary Institute (CVRI) in China

Regional Virtual Training Workshop on Molecular Epidemiology Techniques (MET) for Rabies, 2nd round, 24-25 Aug 2022
“Regional Training Workshop on Molecular Epidemiology Techniques (MET) for Rabies”, virtual, 2021, 22 Oct 2021
“Seminar on Rabies” and “Hands-on Training on Laboratory Diagnosis of Rabies to Strengthen Rabies Surveillance, Prevention and Control in Malaysia”, Malaysia, 7-11 Oct 2019
“Training Course and Workshop for Laboratory Diagnosis of Rabies”, Philippines, 2019, 1-5 Jul 2019
- 6 Month Report, 2 Mar 2020
“Seminar on Rabies” and “Hands-on Training on Laboratory Diagnosis of Rabies to Strengthen Rabies Surveillance, Prevention and Control in Myanmar”, Myanmar, 2018
“Regional Hands-on Laboratory Training on Rabies Diagnosis”, China, 14-18 Aug 2017

Other in-country activities supported by WOAH

Technical Consultation on Oral Rabies Vaccines – A complementary tool for vaccination in animals for Sri Lanka , Virtual, 2020
“Capacity Building and Laboratory Assistance in Post Vaccination Monitoring in the Philippines”, Philippines, 2017
“Capacity Building for Rabies surveillance and diagnosis in Myanmar”, Myanmar, 2017
“Effective Rapid Response to Rabies Outbreak in Eastern Bhutan”, Bhutan, 2017

Other activities supported by WOAH in Asia and the Pacific

Information session on oral rabies vaccines (ORVs), 28 Oct 2022
Virtual Workshop on Oral Rabies Vaccines (ORVs), 28 Feb 2022
Virtual Workshop “Preparing for and dealing with incursion of an infectious disease – rabies”, 22-24 Mar 2021