Driving forces behind a growing interest in Integrated Vector Management include the need to overcome challenges experienced with conventional single-intervention approaches to vector control as well as recent opportunities for promoting multi-sectoral approaches to human health.
In any vector based disease, the most important process in controlling it is monitoring the vector population (Surveillance). This surveillance is important to prioritize the area for treatment and vector control measures.
By providing the tools (ICT & Geoinformatics) to better understand surveillance results, Integrated Vector Management Officers across Nigeria can optimize their own surveillance programs.
Extension personnel can use the system for educating the public and potentially save human lives.
Hence, the integration of ICT & Geoinformatics in vector surveillance ought to be a fundamental skill for modern Integrated Vector Management officers across the Globe
The Role of Information Communication Technology & Geoinformatics in Vector Control in Nigeria.
1. THE ROLE OF
ICT & GEOINFORMATICS
IN VECTOR SURVEILLANCE
AND CONTROL IN NIGERIA.
Presented by
ANUMBA JOSEPH UCHE
Scientific Officer (Entomology)
Federal Ministry of Health,
National Arbovirus and Vectors Research CentreEnugu, Nigeria.
2. • To understand the concept of Integrated Vector
Management in terms of Surveillance and Control.
• To understand the components of Information
communication technologies (ICT) and
Geoinformatics.
• Garner knowledge on how to apply/integrate ICT and
Geoinformatics in Vector Management.
3. Ask
Your
Self…
What is Integrated Vector Management
(IVM)?
What does IVM entail?
As an IVM officer, what are the required
tools and skills?
Why do we need these skills?
4.
IVM is a rational decision-making process for the
optimal use of resources for vector control.
The approach seeks to improve the efficacy, costeffectiveness, ecological soundness and
sustainability of disease-vector control.
The ultimate goal is to prevent the transmission of
vector-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue,
Japanese encephalitis, leishmaniasis,
schistosomiasis and Chagas disease.
5. Driving forces behind a growing interest in
IVM include the need to overcome
challenges experienced with conventional
single-intervention approaches to vector
control as well as recent opportunities for
promoting multi-sectoral approaches to
human health.
6. Advocacy, social mobilization, regulatory control for
public health and empowerment of communities.
Collaboration within the health sector and with other
sectors through the optimal use of resources,
planning, monitoring and decision-making.
Integration of non-chemical and chemical vector
control methods, and integration with other disease
control measures.
7.
Evidence-based decision making guided by
operational research and entomological and
epidemiological surveillance and evaluation.
Development of adequate human resources, training
and career structures at national and local level to
promote capacity building and manage IVM
programmes;
8. SURVEILLANCE
In any vector based disease, the
most important process in
controlling it is monitoring the
vector population (Surveillance).
VECTORS
CONTROL
This surveillance is important to
prioritize the area for treatment
and vector control measures.
9. • Detect Outbreak
to initiate timely
& effective
control
Disease
Transmission
Status
Prioritization
• Prioritize the area
(Temporal &
Geographic
distribution) for
treatment and
vector/disease
control measures.
• Monitor the
impact of
control
interventions
Disease
Control
Sustainability
10. HBC-Human Bait Collection
Mosquitoes
PKC- Pyrethriod
Knockdown Collection
Ovitrap
Mosquito surveillance is
trapping mosquitoes in a way
that they can be
systematically evaluated
and/or tested for disease.
Larval Sampling Dipping
11. • Contemporary Vector
Vector
Surveillance Surveillance tools & Control
Activities
&
Laboratory • Basic Entomological Techniques
Analysis • Specimen diagnosis & Analysis
Information
Communicati
on
Technology
(ICT)
• Data Generation of Vector
Surveillance activities
• Data Storage & Analysis
• Information communication /
transmission
• Entomological &
Epidemiological Monitoring
(spatial & geographical
Geo
distribution)
informatics • Simulation of Vector control
[Decision
activities
Support System]
• Develop Vector Management
Strategies & Decision support
12. Individuals,
organizations,
Institutions.
PCs, input & output
devices, smart
phones, tabs.
Internet, Cloud
computing,
Webinar,
Geoinfo.
People
Data
Hardware
Information
Activities,
projects,
research.
Software
Procedures
Mobile Apps,
statistical
analysis,
database .
Feedback,
reporting,
implementation,
maintenance.
13. Data
People
• raw facts and figures
• data is entered by humans (people, organization,
institutions etc).
Hardware:
• physical components & devices used to
aquire, process, store.
Software
• the name given to computer programs
usually installed I most hardware.
Information:
Procedures:
• data that is converted to give it a meaning.
• a series of actions conducted in a certain
order to make sure the system runs smoothly.
14.
Cloud computing, or something within the cloud, is an
expression used to describe a variety of computing
concepts that involve a large number of computers
connected through a real-time communication
networks.
In IVM, Cloud computing is used as an innovative
concept to mitigate the problem of communication lag
in Vector surveillance, monitoring, control, research
activities, documentation and data transfer among
professionals in across the world.
17. GPS
Global Positioning
systems
REMOTE
SENSING
DATABASE
GIS
Geographic
Information
System
• GPS technology allows users to determine exactly where
they are on the surface of the earth by triangulating data
from a series of satellite that orbit the earth. [using a GPS
receiver]
• …the science and art of obtaining information about an
object, area, or phenomenon through the analysis of data
acquired by a device that is not in contact with the object,
area, or phenomenon under investigation.
• A database is an organized collection of data. The data
are typically organized to model relevant aspects of
reality in a way that supports processes requiring this
information.
• integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing,
managing, analysing, and displaying all forms of
geographically referenced information.
18.
A Geographic Information System (GIS) allows us to view,
understand, question, interpret, and visualize data in
many ways that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends
in the form of maps, globes, reports, and charts.
A GIS is an information system designed to work with
data referenced by spatial / geographical coordinates.
In other words, GIS is both a database system with
specific capabilities for spatially referenced data as well as
a set of operations for working with the data. It may also
be considered as a higher order map.
19.
GIS technology integrates common database
operations such as query and statistical analysis
with the unique visualization and geographic
analysis benefits offered by maps.
These abilities distinguish GIS from other
information systems and make it valuable to a
wide range of public and private enterprises for
explaining events, predicting outcomes, and
planning strategies.
22. SIMULATION
ON
HOW ICT & GEOINFORMATICS CAN BE
USED IN INTEGRATED VECTOR CONTROL &
MANAGEMENT
(Data processing and GIS mapping mosquito species)
23. .
VECTOR SURVEILLANCE ACTIVITY IN XXXX LGA
OVITRAPS
Mosquitoes
Collected
JANUARY
20
0
0
2
6
2
FEBRUARY
20
2
2
0
12
2
MARCH
25
9
3
6
15
3
APRIL
52
43
10
19
30
3
MAY
40
80
34
14
50
3
JUNE
35
56
50
13
22
3
Total
192
190
99
54
135
MONTHS
Albopictus aegypti Anopheles
TOTAL
SPECIES
24. MOSQUITO SURVEILLANCE ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT IN XXX LGA
70
.
Total No. of Mosquitoes Collected
60
50
40
Albopictus
30
aegypti
Anopheles
20
10
0
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
APRIL
Month of Surveillance
MAY
JUNE
31. WITH ICT & GEOINFORMATICS, CAN YOU
FORCAST WHAT WILL HAPPEN BY DECEMBER
2013 IF NOTHING IS DONE TO MANAGE &
CONTROL THESE MOSQUITO SPECIES
(In the State simulated in previous slides)
???
33. NAVRC is an acronym for National Arbovirus and Vectors
Research Centre.
It is an institute established in 1973 and was realised on the
joint efforts of the Federal, State and World Health
Organisation to continuously provide meanings to
interventions in eliminating and subsequent eradication of
vector-borne diseases especially malaria in Nigeria.
It is situated at the Government Reserved Area (GRA),
Enugu and currently has Dr. Chukwuekezie O.C. as the
Chief Medical Officer .
34. Vision:
To be one of the leading research centres
in the world by 2030.
Mission:
To be a Centre of Excellence by establishing
superior value for all aspects of research on
arthropod-borne viruses and vectors; sustaining
quests of asking and proffering solutions and
adhering to the ethical standards.
35. To conduct field disease vectors surveillance and control
throughout Nigeria.
To study the ecology, bionomics, distribution and seasonal
variation of disease vectors especially arbovirus vectors
To identify and incriminate principal arbovirus and other
disease vectors in Nigeria.
To train middle level manpower in field and Laboratory
Entomology Techniques.
To conduct bioassay on disease vectors.
To screen Nigerian plants to determine their pesticidal
properties
36.
Develop online graphic visuals on disease vector activities to
assist Vector Control Officers across the geopolitical zones in
Nigeria.
Using data generated by the state vector control officers,
NAVRC shall develop Geographic Information System (GIS)
based maps with animation (video) to bring surveillance
results "to life."
The GIS video & maps in vector-borne disease surveillance
will aid in refining the science of preventing vector-borne
disease outbreaks in Nigeria.
37. Geoinformatics in Disease Vectors Research
Research
Data
Approval
• Geoinformatics section shall be responsible to
identify whether needed data exists, needs to be
collected, or acquired from third parties.
Research
Data
Collection
•the required spatial data is delivered from the
Geoinformatics Section to the relevant division, in a
suitable format and manner
Research
Data
Analysis
•GIS data is analysed, manipulated, illustrated,
plotted and exported. The required spatial analysis is
done with the help of the GIS or other tools in
Geoinfomatics.
Research
Result
Reporting
•maps are produced as part of the analysis results.
Reporting is again done with the help of the GIS
Center or through utilities provided by the
Geoinformatics Centre .
39.
By providing the tools (ICT & Geoinformatics)
to better understand surveillance
results, Integrated Vector Management
Officers across Nigeria can optimize
their own surveillance programs.
Extension personnel can use the system
for educating the public and potentially
save human lives.
40. The integration of ICT & Geoinformatics in
vector surveillance ought to be a fundamental
skill for modern Integrated Vector
Management officers across the Globe…
Anumba Joseph Uche
http://linkedin.com/in/anumbajoe
41. Enquiries: National Arbovirus and Vectors
Research Centre, Enugu StateNigeria.
Contact: Anumba Joseph Uche
anumbajoe@gmail.com
http://linkedin.com/in/anumbajoe
2348032173955