Table 1 Characteristics of the study districts.

From: Understanding and overcoming geographical barriers for scaling up dog vaccinations against rabies

Re Region

District

Location

Area (km2)

No. villagesbordered toprotected areas

No. villages

Village with M MDVs

No. of vvaccinated dogs va

Estimated do dogs

Human pop

p

Mean distance from HQ to VUs

(SD)

Budget allocated

(TZS 000,000’)

(budget/no.villages in the district)

Dar Es Salaam

Ilala

Coastal-urban

365

0

26

22

4,419

8,179

1,220,611

10.5 (9.3)

12.7 (0.49)

Dar Es Salaam

Kinondoni

Coastal-urban

538

0

34

20

3,421

8,618

1,775,049

9.6 (8.7)

12.3 (0.36)

Dar Es Salaam

Temeke

Coastal-urban

728

0

30

18

3,316

5,819

1,368,881

8.1 (8.8)

12.5 (0.42)

Lindi

Kilwa

Coastal-rural

14,988

2

100

45

2,651

4,961

190,744

56.5 (26.5)

8 ( 0.08)

Lindi

Lindi Rural

Coastal-rural

5,971

0

133

120

1,640

2,788

194,143

43.9 (14.7)

8.6 (0.06)

Lindi

Lindi Urban

Coastal-urban

1,063

0

18

15

1,071

1,876

78,841

7.08 (7.8)

6.8 (0.38)

Lindi

Liwale

Inland-rural

34,301

9

76

58

431

2,386

91,380

30.9 (26.9)

7.2 (0.09)

Lindi

Nachingwea

Inland-rural

5,970

0

118

52

2,360

4,477

178,464

23.8 (23)

8.5 (0.07)

Lindi

Ruangwa

Inland-rural

2,514

0

89

74

1,643

2,095

131,080

22.5 (12.2)

8.2 (0.09)

Morogoro

Kilombero

Inland-rural

13,561

12

80

59

12,408

27,599

407,880

62.5 (49.8)

12.3 (0.15)

Morogoro

Morogoro Rural

Inland-rural

12,453

0

140

94

6,629

12,292

286,248

41.7 (19.6)

11.8 (0.08)

Morogoro

Morogoro Urban

Inland-urban

288

0

19

19

8,113

17,476

315,866

3.7 (3.2)

11.8 (0.62)

Morogoro

Ulanga

Inland-rural

23,484

14

65

63

10,141

19,256

265,203

44.8 (27.9)

12 (0.18)

Mtwara

Masasi

Inland-rural

4,002

0

147

48

1,937

5,027

247,993

36.2 (14.6)

5.7 (0.04)

Mtwara

Masasi urban

Inland-urban

753

0

12

12

874

4,504

102,696

7.3 (5.6)

5.7 (0.48)

Mtwara

Mtwara Rural

Coastal-rural

3,690

0

156

74

869

2,635

228,003

38.2 (18)

8.2 (0.05)

Mtwara

Mtwara Urban

Coastal-urban

170

0

15

15

565

1,160

108,299

5.7 (3)

5.8 (0.39)

Mtwara

Nanyumbu

Inland-rural

5,200

0

89

55

1,163

2,364

150,857

32.8 (13.5)

6.7 (0.08)

Mtwara

Newala

Inland-rural

1,951

0

153

63

702

3,630

205,492

23.2 (12)

7.7 (0.05)

Mtwara

Tandahimba

Inland-rural

2,047

0

155

126

801

1,269

227,514

20.4 (11.3)

7.3 (0.05)

Pwani

Kibaha Rural

Inland-rural

1,498

0

50

33

4,344

9,327

70,209

35.9 (18.6)

10.2 (0.20)

Pwani

Kibaha Urban

Inland-urban

705

0

53

53

4,242

6,596

128,488

13.7 (8.5)

10.3 (0.19)

Pwani

Kisarawe

Inland-rural

5,027

2

77

55

3,116

5,010

101,598

45.2 (23.1)

10.4 (0.14)

Pwani

Mkuranga

Coastal-rural

2,825

0

116

105

2,451

3,891

222,921

27 (13.3)

9.8 (0.08)

Pwani

Rufiji

Coastal-rural

12,739

8

115

99

1,920

3,128

217,274

45.9 (19.3)

10.5 (0.09)

  1. TZS Tanzanian shillings, MDV mass dog vaccinations, VU vaccination unit corresponds to village in rural districts or ward in urban districts, HQ district headquarters, SD standard deviation, No number and Km kilometres. Exchange rate TZS to USD is 1 TZS = 0.000392761 USD.
  2. The straight-line distance between the district headquarters (where the district livestock office are located) and vaccination units were calculated from their centroids. Data on whether village was bordered to protected areas were obtained from Diva GIS data portal (https://www.diva-gis.org/), number of vaccinated dogs and budget allocated for MDVs were obtained from campaign administrative logs, number of estimated dogs obtained from Sambo et al.21 whereas the rest of data were obtained from Tanzania Population and Housing Census 2012.