ArticleBMC public health2021
Public sentiments towards the use of Wolbachia-Aedes technology in Singapore.
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- Fitness compatibility and dengue virus Inhibition in a Bangladeshi strain of Aedes aegypti infected with the Wolbachia strain wAlbB.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- ExploitingPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Suppression of Aedes aegypti may not affect sympatric Aedes albopictus populations: findings from two years of entomological surveillance in Singapore.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Procedural legitimacy: co-developing a community agreement model for genetic approaches research to malaria control in Africa.Malaria journal · 2024Article
- Wolbachia and mosquitoes: Exploring transmission modes and coevolutionary dynamics in Shandong Province, China.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Report of the 2023 Asia Pacific Conference on Mosquito and Vector Control: "reimagining vector control-innovations for a changed world".Malaria journal · 2024Article
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- Acceptability of emergent Aedes aegypti vector control methods in Ponce, Puerto Rico: A qualitative assessment.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Mitigating dengue transmission in Africa: the need forFrontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Singapore's 5 decades of dengue prevention and control-Implications for global dengue control.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2023Article
- TargetingViruses · 2023Review
- SymbioticFrontiers in microbiology · 2023Review
- Influence of public hesitancy and receptivity on reactive behaviours towards releases of male Wolbachia-Aedes mosquitoes for dengue control.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- Strategies to Mitigate Establishment under theViruses · 2022Article
- Assessment of community support for Wolbachia-mediated population suppression as a control method for Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in a community cohort in Puerto Rico.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
- A Household-Based Survey to Understand Factors Influencing Awareness, Attitudes and Knowledge towardsInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundWolbachia technology is a novel vector control approach that can reduce mosquito populations and the risk of mosquito-borne diseases, which has recently gained popularity amongst countries. In 2016, Singapore embarked on a multi-phased field study named Project Wolbachia - Singapore, to evaluate the use of Wolbachia technology as an Aedes aegypti mosquito population suppression tool to fight dengue. Due to the novelty of this technology in Singapore, this study aims to understand the public's acceptance and sentiments towards the use of Wolbachia technology.
methodsSeveral public sentiment survey approaches - including online, face-to-face in the streets, as well as door-to-door household surveys - were conducted.
resultsThe surveys conducted prior to the first field releases and implementation of the project revealed high support for the use of Wolbachia technology in Singapore. A household perception survey conducted in the interim of the first project phase was encouraging, with the majority of the respondents being aware of the project and having no concerns with the release of male Wolbachia-carrying Aedes aegypti (Wolbachia-Aedes) mosquitoes in their neighbourhood.
conclusionsThe study reveal high support for the use of Wolbachia technology in Singapore and also provided invaluable insights that were used in the development of a public communications and engagement framework model, which thus helped to guide these elements in the subsequent phases and expansion of the project.
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