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Community-based dengue vector control : experiences in behavior change in Metropolitan Manila, Philippines
Dengue is the most important mosquito-borne disease in the Philippines, especially in Metropolitan Manila
where communities are socially and economically diverse, and city governments struggle to provide basic
services such as continuously available, piped water supply to residents. We examined responses to
introducing water container management to control dengue vectors in two diverse communities in Masagana
City: Village A (gated community) and Village B (informal settlers community). The roll out of the intervention was
carried out by the study team, dengue control personnel and local health workers (BHWs). A behavioural
change framework was used to describe the community responses to the introduction of a new vector control
intervention - household water containermanagement. Although, the desired outcome was not achieved during
the studyβs timeline, observation on processes of behaviour change underscored the importance of
understanding the social nature of the urban communities, often overlooked structures when dengue control
program and researchers introduce new dengue control interventions
Chemotherapy: Principles in practice--A case study of the Philippines
This paper reports on the principles that form the basis of chemotherapy and examines the operational considerations that affect their practice in a developing country like the Philippines, where malaria endemicity is synonymous with difficult topography, poor public health infrastructure, and alternative means of obtaining medication. The practice of using microscopic diagnosis for radical treatment is followed routinely and uniformly. Where policy dictates that all fever cases be screened, the result is an overload of the system and a corresponding delay in the slide-examination rate which makes such microscopic diagnosis cease to serve as a basis for prompt radical treatment and control in transmission.malaria chemotherapy operational research Philippines