ISCEP 2026 At Sunway Putra Hotel 17-18 August 2026
ABSTRACT
POSTER PRESENTATION ABSTRACT
EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES TO BREAK THE DENGUE TRANSMISSION CHAIN IN SELANGOR, MALAYSIA (2018-2025)
Despite the implementation of conventional vector control paradigms, recurrent urban dengue outbreaks in Selangor, Malaysia, necessitated sustainable community-driven interventions. Consequently the Community Sticky Ovitrap (CSO) programme was pioneered within the Petaling District from 2018 to 2025 to address this pressing public health challenge. The CSO is an award-winning, highly cost-effective lethal ovitrap (unit cost: RM 2.40) engineered to disrupt the vector life cycle. Utilising a dark container, dechlorinated water and a transparent adhesive sheet, the device captures and exterminates gravid female Aedes mosquitoes, thereby preventing oviposition and suppressing viral transmission. Deployed across persistent hotspot localities, the intervention was managed longitudinally by trained community volunteers who executed weekly installation and monitoring protocols. A Sticky Trap Index (STI) threshold exceeding 5% served as an entomologically early warning indicator, systematically triggering community-led mitigation frameworks. These included source reduction 'Search and Destroy' operations, targeted larviciding, and communal sanitation (gotong-royong) Longitudinal surveilance data demonstrated substantial epidemiological efficacy. Most notably, at the Rumah Pangsa Sri Saujana locality, the annual report of dengue incidence plummeted from 13 cases in 2018 to zero consecutively from 2020 through 2025. By transitioning a traditional entomological surveillance tool into an active, community-managed lethal control mechanism, the CSO programme establishes a sustainable, scalable, and evidence-based paradigm. This strategy effectively decentralises vector management, empowering local populations to break the dengue transmission chain.
Keywords: dengue prevention, Aedes, community empowerment, lethal op
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