In the Philippines, the project includes only the Visayas group of islands covering 25% of the total number of animal rabies cases, 28% of the total cases of human rabies, and 27% of animal bites in the entire country based on the 2006 annual rabies report. Three of the 17 administrative regions of the country, 16 provinces and 31 cities of the country's 82 provinces, and 117 cities are, therefore, included. The project serves almost 19% of the country's human population (with 17 million inhabitants in the area) and an estimated 2 million dogs.