Title of poster
The urgent need of dengue vaccine in Indonesia
Name of University and Authors
Faculty of Medicine, Airlangga University and Alifah Fajriyyatul Izzah, Sukacita Yeremia Tehupuring, Nurizzah Farahiyah Sofia, Jihan Kalishah
Aim
To explain to the public the importance of dengue vaccine in Indonesia.
Background
Dengue Fever is a vector-based disease which is the main cause of death in Indonesia. [ 1 ] This is compounded by season change. Season change causes irregular weather conditions in dry and rainy season. Which in turn causes an increase in mosquito population. [ 2 ] Currently dengue prevention efforts by eradicating the vector has been done but is not yet effective. [ 3 ] So, we need an innovation in the form of interventions by dengue vaccine. Many scientists are currently developing a dengue virus vaccine and even some countries have been using it. [ 4 ] But Indonesians who really needs it has not been using it. [ 5 ]
Materials and methods
We took an example from the increasing number of dengue vectors found in an entomology research survey conducted by Wijayanti et. Al. in the province of Banyumas, Central Java where dengue cases occur each year. Researchers took samples in four villages during the dry and rainy seasons, of which two villages are endemic, one village is dengue-sporadic and the other village is dengue-free. Researchers took the data of three different mosquito species. It contains information about the population of larvae and adult mosquitoes of each species.
Results
The results are, from the village which had been dengue-endemic there had been an increase in the number of mosquito larvae between 2012 and 2013 compared to the sporadic and dengue-free villages. Differences in the number of larvae population occured between the dry and rainy season, in which the rainy season has higher larvae population than the dry one. The researchers got an interesting data off of adult mosquitoes. There were more adult mosquitoes during the dry season in the dengue-sporadic village.