Dengue: Private initiative joins forces to mobilize against the Aedes aegypti mosquito

Dengue: Private initiative joins forces to mobilize against the Aedes aegypti mosquito

Published on 04/02/2024 at 11:23

With the number of cases increasing weekly, Jundiaí City Hall guarantees support from the private sector to raise awareness among the population about the fight against the Aedes aegypti mosquito. In addition to the campaigns and actions carried out by municipal teams, the population is now also counting on publicizing precautions to prevent and eliminate mosquito breeding sites in the streets, shopping malls and cinemas.

Arboviruses, including dengue, are worked on by teams from the Health Promotion Management Unit (UGPS), throughout the year, and intensified from October onwards, when the rains and high temperatures begin. “In 2023, with the forecast of an increase in cases due to the circulation of virus 3, which had not circulated in the country for decades, the high rate of occurrences was already expected. Therefore, the work was intensified beforehand, with actions in partnership with the Army. At this stage, we received support from the private sector to disseminate information in different environments”, comments the manager of the Health Promotion Management Unit (UGPS), Tiago Texera.

Based on a mobilization organized by the Jundiaí Cooperation Network – linked to the Government and Finance Management Unit (UGGF) – it is possible, while traveling through shopping malls in Jundiaí, to view information about dengue on electronic panels spread throughout the commercial complexes. Still, in the city’s cinemas, in the pre-screening trailers of the films.

Other actions were also aligned by the Innovation and Citizen Relations Management Unit (UGIRC) and the Mobility and Transport Management Unit (UGMT), such as the dissemination of educational messages on the city’s electronic panels. “All actions are important. The fight against dengue is simple and it doesn’t take more than 10 minutes a week to ensure that the home is mosquito-free: just eliminate any object that can accumulate water and serve as a place to deposit eggs and breed mosquito larvae”, he reinforces. the director of the Department of Health Surveillance, Fauzia Abou Abbas Raíza.

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Original link: https://jundiai.sp.gov.br/noticias/2024/04/02/dengue-iniciativa-privada-une-forcas-para-mobilizacao-contra-o-mosquito-aedes-aegypti/

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