DengueChat: A Social and Software Platform for Community-based Arbovirus Vector Control.

ABSTRACT: The mosquito Aedes aegypti transmits arboviral diseases at extraordinary rates. Dengue alone afflicts 50 to 100 million people each year, with more than 3 billion at risk globally. This indicates that current approaches to prevention and control are inadequate, and that a paradigm shift from one that largely promotes vertical chemical-based control and vaccine development to one that also concentrates on eliminating the mosquito through actions by the communities it plagues is necessary. We have developed a new social and software platform, DengueChat (denguechat.org), to advance community interventions in arbovirus vector control. It is an interactive platform combining open-source digital communication technologies with face-to-face assemblies. It promotes resident participation in evide

SUBMITTER: Holston J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8641316 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature