The Caribbean Public Well being Company seeks to realize a greater understanding of the inhabitants’s data, attitudes and practices related to Mosquito Borne Illnesses (MBDs) in six CARPHA Member States. The Worldwide Federation of Pink Cross and Pink Crescent Societies (IFRC) has been contracted by CARPHA to conduct surveys from February to April 2024.
The IFRC by its Pink Cross-Nationwide Societies will enterprise into communities in six pre-selected Member States, beginning with: Belize, Guyana, Suriname and St Vincent and the Grenadines, within the first occasion. The Pink Cross groups will conduct focus group discussions and administer house-to-house questionnaires focusing on adolescents, ladies of childbearing age, males between 18 and 45, individuals over 45 and neighborhood leaders. Extra info concerning the remaining two international locations will likely be shared in a subsequent communication.
The findings of the research will likely be used to tell community-based public schooling campaigns, insurance policies, and methods that intention to scale back the unfold of Zika, Chikungunya and Dengue. It’s hoped that these will contribute to the development of the well being of the Caribbean inhabitants and the sustainable social improvement of the Caribbean.
About Mosquito Borne Illnesses within the Caribbean
Mosquito-borne ailments (MBDs) are a significant risk to the well being and economies of societies globally. MBDs similar to Zika, Chikungunya and Dengue account for about 17% of the estimated international burden of infectious ailments, with roughly 700,000 attributable deaths annually.
In 2013, Chikungunya (CHIKV) was first detected on the island of Saint-Martin and inside one yr expanded to all international locations within the area with 1000’s of cases1. In 2015, the primary Zika case was detected in Suriname. Subsequently, the Caribbean skilled a wider outbreak with surprising neurological problems, similar to microcephaly and Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)2.
The epidemics of Zika, Chikungunya and Dengue amongst different mosquito-borne ailments underscore the necessity to have strong regional well being safety programs. That is significantly essential as a result of many Caribbean international locations depend upon tourism as a significant income. There may be due to this fact a must make use of methods that particularly goal the wants of the Caribbean folks to forestall and appropriately reply to those public well being threats. CARPHA will proceed to work carefully with its Member States to develop efficient interventions and enhance their capability to forestall, management and reply to outbreaks of mosquito borne ailments.
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