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Lutte contre la rage en Afrique: du constat à l’action

The fight against rabies in Africa: from recognition to action

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Le Bureau des experts de la rage du continent africain (AfroREB) s’est réuni pour la seconde fois, en mars 2009, pour poursuivre leur évaluation de la situation de la rage en Afrique et définir des plans d’action. Une quarantaine d’éminents spécialistes de la rage venant de 15 pays d’Afrique francophone se sont retrouvés à Dakar avec des représentants de l’Institut Pasteur de Paris, du réseau anglophone SEARG (groupe de spécialistes de la rage d’Afrique australe et orientale) et de l’Alliance mondiale contre la rage. En Afrique, de nombreux cas de rage ne sont ni identifiés ni rapportés. Alors que l’OMS estime à 25 000 le nombre de décès annuels dus à la rage sur ce continent (2 à 3,6 décès pour 100 000 habitants), les membres d’AfroREB ont comptabilisé, en tout et pour tout, en 2008, 146 cas pour leurs 15 pays, soit 0,07 cas pour 100 000 habitants. La priorité est de briser le cercle vicieux de l’indifférence et du manque d’information, afin de pouvoir lutter contre la rage humaine.

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As a follow-up to the first AfroREB (Africa Rabies Expert Bureau) meeting, held in Grand-Bassam (Côted’Ivoire) in March 2008, African rabies experts of the Afro-REB network met a second time to complete the evaluation of the rabies situation in Africa and define specific action plans. About forty French speaking rabies specialists from Northern, Western and Central Africa and Madagascar met in Dakar (Senegal), from March 16th to 19th, 2009. With the participation of delegates from Tunisia, who joined the AfroREB network this year, 15 French speaking African countries were represented. Experts from the Institut Pasteur in Paris, the Alliance for Rabies Control, and the Southern and Eastern African Rabies Group (SEARG, a network of rabies experts from 19 English speaking Southern and Eastern African countries) were in attendance, to participate in the discussion and share their experiences. AfroREB members documented 146 known human rabies cases in all represented countries combined for 2008, for a total population of 209.3 million, or an incidence of 0.07 cases per 100,000 people. Even admitting that the experts do not have access to all reported cases, this is far from the WHO estimation of 2 rabies deaths per 100,000 people in urban areas and 3.6 per 100,000 in rural Africa. It was unanimously agreed that the priority is to break the vicious cycle of indifference and lack of information which is the main barrier to human rabies prevention.

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Dodet, B., le Bureau d’experts de la rage du continent africain (AfroREB)., Adjogoua, E. et al. Lutte contre la rage en Afrique: du constat à l’action. Bull. Soc. Pathol. Exot. 103, 51–59 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13149-009-0034-3

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