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    Screenshot of the Rabies Blueprint home page (

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    <p><a href="http://www.rabiesblueprint.com" target="_blank">http://www.rabiesblueprint.com</a><b>).</b> The sections of the document can be accessed from the left navigation bar, the site map or the diagram to the right, which provides a summary of all components of a successful canine rabies control/elimination program.</p

    Map of Tanzania showing the study districts where incidences of rabies and cost data were collected.

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    <p>Gray shading indicates where extensive investigative interviews were administered and black shading where only cost data were collected.</p

    The probability of victims of bites by suspect rabid animals receiving and completing PEP vaccine doses.

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    <p>The situation for bite victims in Kilombero and Ulanga may not be representative as St Francis Mission Hospital in Kilombero received donated vaccine through Ifakara Health Institute as a result of the outbreak, therefore the population in the Kilombero valley is likely better served than in some other rural parts of Tanzania.</p

    Average costs of PEP according to different schedules and methods of subsidization in relation to income.

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    <p>The projected average per capita daily income for 2010 was USD 0.68 in rural areas and USD 1.55 in urban areas. PEP costs were calculated as: ((Cost per dose+(days lost per dose * daily income))*clinic visits;</p><p>§: Scenario with government providing PEP to bite patient free-of-charge;</p><p>‡<i>:</i> Scenario with government providing PEP to bite patient free-of-charge from local health facilities (i.e. not only at district hospitals).</p><p>ςThis regimen requires 4 hospital visits and therefore is equivalent in travel costs to the reduced Thai Red Cross ID regimen that uses less vaccine (0.1 ml/injection).</p
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