Slum dwellers have limited access to various services that form the foundation of good health. Thus, there is a need to improve their awareness of health and hygiene issues. This article is based on an assessment of arts-based participatory theatre interventions that aimed at improving health...

The school students are of particular importance in the HIV/AIDS awareness policies at both local and international level. This study was conducted to assess the level of knowledge of the modes of HIV transmission among urban and rural public secondary school students in Malaysia. In this...

Supervision over the implementation of DDD measures as special measures for prevention and control of infectious diseases in the area of Liburnia conducted by employees branch offices Opatija Teaching Institute for Public Health Kvarner County - Sanitary - Epidemiological Service (HE service)....

At present, there is an emergence and re-emergence process of some infectious diseases with vector transmission in the entire world, since they install on very wide territories as a result of adapting pathogenic agents, becoming an integral part of local ecosystems. At the moment of the...

Because of its interest for biodiversity conservation, the Camargue remained outside the mosquito control zone, between Marseille and the Spanish border, until 2005. The mosquito control is nevertheless initiated in the territory, due to the demand for solution emerging from local communities,...

Problem/Condition: Malaria in humans is caused by any of four species of intraerythrocytic protozoa of the genus Plasmodium (i.e., P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, or P. malariae). These parasites are transmitted by the bite of an infective female Anopheles sp. mosquito. The majority of malaria...

Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis (VEE) epizoodemics were reported at 6-10-year intervals in northern South America beginning in the 1920s. In 1937, epizootic VEE virus was isolated from infected horse brain and shown as distinct from the North American equine encephalomyelitis viruses....

Mangrove forests are among the world's most productive ecosystems, and in Australia mangroves have an extensive distribution and are probably important for the maintenance of estuarine fisheries. The lack of data on mangrove fauna prevents the development of detailed plans for management, and for...