Research Components

Building on the pilot study, the next phase of research is planned to involve the development and implementation of an innovative and environmentally-friendly vector birth control tool using super-sterile mosquitoes.

This study will involve:

• Spatial baseline data collection and mapping of the study sites

• Social science data collection through observations, interviews and questionnaires

• Focus-group discussions and consultative workshops

• Ethnography and participatory analysis

• Entomological baseline data collection

• Analysis of retrospective dengue incidence and morbidity rate

• Development, sterilization and release of sterilized male mosquitoes

• Monitoring mosquito abundance and egg hatch rate following release

• Evaluating impact on dengue incidences in treatment areas