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Winner Announcement: 2008 Latin America - Caribbean Award

 

The Alliance for Rabies Control and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) are proud to announce the winners of the 2008 World Rabies Day Latin America – Caribbean Award!!!  We received 66 reports from projects in 16 participating countries and 25 abstracts were submitted for consideration for the prizes.  The panel of judges was made up of five people from  a cross-section of countries. 

 

We are now proud to release the names of the winners who met all the judges’ requirements in the following categories:

 

Best Local Event

Title: THEATRE WORKSHOP FOR  CHILDREN

Contact name: Marilene F. de Almeida

Contact email: marilene@prefeitura.sp.gov.br

City/area: São Paulo, State of São Paulo; Country: Brazil

 

Best Regional/Departmental Event

Title: RIO DE JANEIRO AGAINST RABIES

Contact name: Dr. Clayton Gitti

Contact email: cbgitti@yahoo.com.br

City/area: State of Rio de Janeiro; Country: Brazil

 

Best National/International Event

Title: WORLD RABIES DAY 2008

Contact names: Dr. Fernando Vargas Pino/Dra. Verónica Gutiérrez Cedillo

Contact emails: subzoonosis@gmail.com; rabiareservorio@gmail.com

Country: Mexico

 

Two special mention certificates were also issued for events in Bolivia and Cuba:

Title: A DAY OF ANTI-RABIES CLASSES; Ciudad de Santa Cruz de la Sierra,Bolivia

Title: WORLD RABIES DAY; Cuidad de La Havana, Municipio La Lisa, Cuba

 

The Latin America – Caribbean Award is an annual prize given by The Alliance for Rabies Control/PAHO partnership to the three best events associated with World Rabies Day.  All Latin American and Caribbean Nations are eligible to compete.  Winners receive $1000 USD to help prepare the following year’s World Rabies Day activities.

 

For more information, please contact Phyllis Romijn (phyllisromijn@gmail.com) or Jane Coutts (jc@njuggle.com).

 

Please also see:  http://www.rabiescontrol.net