School and community driven dengue vector control and monitoring in Myanmar: Study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial.

Background: Dengue is the most common and widespread mosquito-borne arboviral disease globally estimated to cause >390 million infections and >20,000 deaths annually. There are no effective preventive drugs and the newly introduced vaccines are not yet available. Control of dengue transmission still relies primarily on mosquito vector control.

Efficacy of household larval control practices in a peri-urban township, Yangon, Myanmar: Implication for entomological surveillance.

Dengue is a major public health concern in Myanmar. We carried out a cross-sectional study to investigate the efficacy of larval control practices in household water containers, such as the use of the larvicide, temephos, covering the containers with lids and weekly cleaning. We surveyed 300 households in Kaw Hmu Township, a peri-urban community in the Yangon region.

Effectiveness of dengue training programmes on prevention and control among high school students in the Yangon region, Myanmar.

Background: Dengue is one of the health problems in Myanmar. Thus, health promotion in schools is considered a key approach for reducing risk-taking behaviours related to dengue.

Objectives: The study aimed to evaluate a dengue training programme for high school students to measure changes in knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) towards dengue; evaluate the effectiveness of the programme in improving prevention and control practices among families and determining changes in larval indices in their dwelling places.

Notified dengue deaths in Myanmar (2017-18): profile and diagnosis delays.

Complications in dengue usually occur between day four and day six after fever onset. Hence, early diagnosis and haematological monitoring are vital. Among all hospital reported dengue deaths in Myanmar in 2017-18, we assessed the i) patient profile, ii) proportion of patients who arrived with a dengue diagnosis at admission and iii) delays in diagnosis after fever onset.

Measuring Mosquito-borne Viral Suitability in Myanmar and Implications for Local Zika Virus Transmission.

Introduction: In South East Asia, mosquito-borne viruses (MBVs) have long been a cause of high disease burden and significant economic costs. While in some SEA countries the epidemiology of MBVs is spatio-temporally well characterised and understood, in others such as Myanmar our understanding is largely incomplete.

Materials And Methods: Here, we use a simple mathematical approach to estimate a climate-driven suitability index aiming to better characterise the intrinsic, spatio-temporal potential of MBVs in Myanmar.

Are village health volunteers as good as basic health staffs in providing malaria care? A country wide analysis from Myanmar, 2015.

Background: Malaria is one of the major public health problems in Myanmar. Village health volunteers (VHV) are the key malaria diagnosis and treatment service provider at community level in addition to basic health staffs (BHS). This countrywide analysis aimed to assess and compare the accessibility to- and quality of malaria care (treatment initiation, treatment within 24 h and complete treatment delivery) between VHV and BHS in Myanmar.

"Alert-Audit-Act": assessment of surveillance and response strategy for malaria elimination in three low-endemic settings of Myanmar in 2016.

Background: Myanmar, a malaria endemic country of Southeast Asia, adopted surveillance and response strategy similar to "1-3-7" Chinese strategy to achieve sub-national elimination in six low-endemic region/states of the country. Among these, Yangon, Bago-East, and Mon region/states have implemented this malaria surveillance and response strategy with modification in 2016. The current study was conducted to assess the case notification, investigation, classification, and response strategy (NICR) in these three states.