Table 7.

Priorities for public health research and interventions

Research needs:

• Study the seroprevalence and circulation of serotypes.

• Analyze the presence of malaria–dengue co-infection.

• Analyze the health system’s capacity to introduce dengue diagnostic tools during epidemics.

• Analyze the impacts of human mobility on virus circulation.

• Organize entomological studies on circulation, Aedes presence, etc.

• Organize interdisciplinary and interventional studies on vector control.

• Study the equity issues raised by dengue.

Public health interventions:

• Mobilize community interventions for vector control.

• Incorporate dengue into the national surveillance system.

• Organize a system to monitor the presence of Aedes.

• Train health professionals in dengue management.

• Inform the population about dengue and the means of controlling it.

• Ensure that malaria RDTs are always available and free of charge in CSPSs and that dengue RDTs are available during significant epidemics.

• Reinforce the capacities of the national laboratories.