Preliminary program

I INTERNATIONAL COURSE ON INTEGRATED VECTOR MANAGEMENT PRELIMINARY PROGRAM (MAY HAVE FURTHER CHANGES)

FIRST WEEK: THEORETICAL COURSE

  1. Antivectorial Surveillance and Fight Program in Cuba.
  2. Worldwide situation of medical entomology and vector control. Challenges and perspectives.
  3. Integrated vector managment. Multiple challenges.
  4. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Antivectorial programs.
  5. Strengthening capacities for implementing integrated vector managment in the Americas. Progress and challenges.
  6. Interdisciplinary vision (epidemiology, social factors and the environment for integrated vector managment)
  7. Update on fields studies related to vector biogeography and ecology, in view of knowing the changes in population dynamics and their impact on vector control.
  8. Update on vector-borne diseases and progress in controlling them.
  9. Diptera and arthropods. Distribution and importance in public health.
  10. Entomological surveillance with an emphasis in Aedes aegypti in the times of COVID-19.
  11. Entomovirological surveillance and its introduction as one more tool for arbovirusis vector control.
  12. Update on resistance surveillance and resistance mechanism. Worldwide situation.
  13. Sterile-insect technique: a tool for integrated managment of insect vectors.
  14. Advances in the study of essential herbal oils in search of natural products for vector control.
  15. Study on the ecology of mollusks of medical-veterinary importance and host-parasite-environment interaction.
  16. Social determinants and social communication. Approaches in vector control.
  17. Community involvement in vector control. Weaknesses and strengths.
  18. Estimation of costs for vector control interventions.

  (PRACTICE COURSE)

  1. Cuban Program of Antivectorial Fight. Field visits.
  2. Types of vector control methods. Environmental control, chemical control, and biological control. Development inhibitors. Generalities. Update on the use of these methods in anti–insect vector campaigns.
  3. Main insecticides used on vector control in the region of the Americas for vector insect control. Insecticides formulations. Preparation forms.
  4. Adulticide treatments: indoor and outdoor. Generalities. Equipment. Work organizations.
  5. Residual treatments. Equipment. Application techniques.
  6. Control of other vectors (mice and mollusks).
  7. Insecticide susceptibility and/or resistance tests.
  8. Laboratory tests with biological control (nematodes and Bacillus)
  9. Determining insecticide resistance mechanisms.
  10. Sterile-mosquito release for arbovirosis control.