Management model of community participative rabies vaccine fund

Abstract

The objective of this study was to set up a management model of a Rabies Vaccine Fund by using community participation. It was a Participatory Action Research-PAR (Research and Development) during January-December 1999. The target population were the Local Administrative Organization (LAO) committee, community leaders and village health volunteers. The research instrument was the focus group discussion purposively set. The result showed that the Rabies Vaccine Fund was successful, sustainable with no rabies case and the fund increased. The management model of Rabies Vaccine Fund consists of the fund committee, community participation in fund raising, delegation of work, fund regulation, animal vector registration and immunization, and provision of health education through village cable line. The recommendation is that promotion of this type of Rabies Vaccine Fund should be one alternative of a rabies protection and control program.