Successful experience in the control of Aedes aegypti without the use of poisons in Ceará backcountry

• Autor(a) principal: Carneiro, Fernando Ferreira
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Pessoa, Vanira Matos, Teixeira, Ana Cláudia de Araújo, Barbosa, Maria Idalice Silva, Holanda Lavor, Antonio Carlile, Silva, Jurandi Frutuoso
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Vigilância Sanitária em Debate
• Texto Completo: https://visaemdebate.incqs.fiocruz.br/index.php/visaemdebate/article/view/775
• topic: Controle de Vetores; Aedes Aegypti; Dengue; Zika; Chikungunya; Vector Control; Aedes Aegypti; Dengue; Zika; Chikungunya

Brazil is going through a public health emergency and a triple epidemic of Dengue, Chikungunya and Zika, transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Studies attested the inefficacy of conventional model of vector control used for over 30 years. The experience of the city of Pedra Branca in the backcountry of the state of Ceará, which broke with the hegemonic paradigm of chemical control for the vector-centered combat in Brazil, is presented. The council was successful in its vector control activities, presenting absence of local transmission of dengue for more than ten years, and reaching in 2016, 0.09% infestation index by Aedes aegypti in six months. This is the result of 15 years of work that has been maintained by successive municipal administrations, which includes: monthly visits by the endemics controlling agents; ovitraps; environmental monitoring; sealing shells; biological control; outbreaks delimitation; health education; integration of the Family Health Strategy with the endemic diseases controlling agents and the Education Office; and municipal administration support as a whole. The experience of Pedra Branca points out to more effective and sustainable ways that could be implemented in other local health systems, and which may guide actions against this triple epidemic.