Community-based interventions

TDR and Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) have partnered for many years on innovative community-centered ecosystem management interventions against dengue and Chagas disease vectors. There are two major regional initiatives – one in Asia and the other in Latin America and the Caribbean – which are pursuing a systematic research framework for multi-disciplinary research on ecological, biological and social ("eco-bio-social") aspects of vector-borne diseases. The research groups are analysing ecological conditions influencing transmission patterns, risk factors, the community context and stakeholder environment, and then developing and testing site-specific vector control interventions.

• The Asia initiative was recently completed

• Eco-bio-social determinants of dengue vector breeding: A multicountry study in urban and periurban Asia

The dengue studies are in the following six countries: Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico and Uruguay. The Chagas studies are in Guatemala, Bolivia and Mexico.

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