ADVA launches dengue avoidance 'community' tool

Health & Leisure
Thursday, 16 June 2016

In support of the Sixth Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Dengue Day, the Asian Dengue Vaccination Advocacy (ADVA) has launched a tool to measure community engagement for the prevention of dengue.


Called the Dengue Mission Buzz Barometer, it will also comprise an educational online portal to increase dengue awareness and readiness within communities. Dengue, the fastest-growing mosquito-borne disease in the world, represents a major health threat and public health burden for Southeast Asia.  

The Dengue Mission Buzz Barometer features a Dengue Readiness Quiz to help site visitors gauge their level of dengue prevention readiness.


Quiz results across the six participating countries, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam will be displayed on a scoreboard on the site.


The Dengue Mission Buzz portal also presents news, videos and information about dengue prevention in multiple languages.

“By launching the Dengue Mission Buzz portal we hope to increase public awareness of dengue and its prevention in an engaging and interactive way, while encouraging greater vigilance against the disease in the region," said professor Usa Thisyakorn, chairman of the Asian Dengue Vaccination Advocacy.

While governments in the region have made dengue prevention a priority on their public health agendas, the rising incidence of dengue continues to have a negative socioeconomic impact on the region.
Currently, governments in Southeast Asia are spending nearly US$1 billion per year due to dengue.

Dengue is the fastest growing mosquito-borne disease in the world today, causing nearly 400 million infections every year.
 In the past 50 years, dengue has spread from being present in a handful of countries to being endemic in 128 countries, where about  four billion people live, and dengue incidence has increased 30-fold.  

For further information on the Dengue Mission Buzz web site visit denguemissionbuzz.org

ADVA launches dengue avoidance 'community' tool

Health & Leisure
Thursday, 16 June 2016

In support of the Sixth Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Dengue Day, the Asian Dengue Vaccination Advocacy (ADVA) has launched a tool to measure community engagement for the prevention of dengue.


Called the Dengue Mission Buzz Barometer, it will also comprise an educational online portal to increase dengue awareness and readiness within communities. Dengue, the fastest-growing mosquito-borne disease in the world, represents a major health threat and public health burden for Southeast Asia.  

The Dengue Mission Buzz Barometer features a Dengue Readiness Quiz to help site visitors gauge their level of dengue prevention readiness.


Quiz results across the six participating countries, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam will be displayed on a scoreboard on the site.


The Dengue Mission Buzz portal also presents news, videos and information about dengue prevention in multiple languages.

“By launching the Dengue Mission Buzz portal we hope to increase public awareness of dengue and its prevention in an engaging and interactive way, while encouraging greater vigilance against the disease in the region," said professor Usa Thisyakorn, chairman of the Asian Dengue Vaccination Advocacy.

While governments in the region have made dengue prevention a priority on their public health agendas, the rising incidence of dengue continues to have a negative socioeconomic impact on the region.
Currently, governments in Southeast Asia are spending nearly US$1 billion per year due to dengue.

Dengue is the fastest growing mosquito-borne disease in the world today, causing nearly 400 million infections every year.
 In the past 50 years, dengue has spread from being present in a handful of countries to being endemic in 128 countries, where about  four billion people live, and dengue incidence has increased 30-fold.  

For further information on the Dengue Mission Buzz web site visit denguemissionbuzz.org