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The Alliance for Rabies Control and PAHO (Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization) are working together to promote World Rabies Day in the Americas. They are making use of each other's extensive networks and gathering educational material to raise awareness in areas throughout the world where people live with the daily risk of animal and human rabies.
PAHO and the Alliance have common objectives in the areas of surveillance, prevention, control and elimination of rabies, the promotion of animal and human health and environmental protection and well-being.
The main function of PAHO/WHO is to promote and coordinate the efforts of western countries in combatting disease, prolonging life expectancy and promoting mental and physical health. It has been working in international public health for over 100 years.
The Alliance's aim is to eliminate rabies throughout the world by raising awareness about this neglected and fatal disease, supporting rabies control programmes and promoting educational initiatives to help prevent people from dying unnecessarily.
The three areas of cooperation are:
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