The IMPE-Quy Nhon coordinated with the provincial Centre for Preventive Medicine of Binh Dinh to organise the training course o­n enhancing Dengue Vector Control Skills for medical staff at district level in Binh Dinh province in 2014 with the purposes of updating the information and improving the quality of technical skills for entomology staff o­n dengue fever at district levels.

Binh Dinh is o­ne of provinces with high rate of dengue morbidity against the provinces of Central Vietnam and the whole country. According to the report of the management board of the National Dengue Fever Project in the first 9 months of 2014, the whole country had 17.766 cases of degue morbidity in 50 provinces/cities and 17 cases of dengue mortality. Rates of degue morbidity and mortality in 2014 until now decreased against the same period of last year and the period of 2006-2010; however, risk of dengue outbreak can occur in many areas, especially in Binh Dinh province, so activities of surveillance and vector control needed to be deployed strongly in provinces/cities having high indexes of vectors.

The training course was organized acoording to the plan of dengue control in 2014 with a view to enhancing the effectiveness of the prevention and control of dengue vector in Binh Dinh. Participants to the opening ceremony of training course included the leaderships of the IMPE-Quy Nhon, the Centre for Preventive Medicine of Binh Dinh and the attendence of entomologic staff being responsible for dengue fever control in 11 district/communal/city medical centres of Binh Dinh province. During two days, the training course included main contents as follows:    

The theoretical contents of the training course included dengue fever situation, the strategies of dengue control in Viet Nam and in the world; dengue fever situation in Binh Dinh and given solutions; biological characteristics and habit of dengue vectors in Vietnam; the process of dengue vector surveillance in 2014; the technique of classifying mosquitoes and larvae of dengue vectors; dengue vector control measures; the technique of ULV sprayed insecticides o­n dengue vectors and safe measures in insecticides usage.

The practical contents included technique o­n classifying mosquitoes and larvae of dengue vectors; practising technique of spraying ULV insecticides; practising o­n surveying indexes of dengue vectors  in the field.

Training course o­n enhancing dengue vector control capacity in Binh Dinh province in 2014

          Beside the content o­n theory and practice of the training course, the staff attending the training course also had an opportunity to exchange and study experiences each other and discuss the effective vector control measures in the community to enhance the knowledge, skills for specialised staff o­n dengue control and protecting the people's health.

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