Fig 1.
Conceptual framework of the IAM system.
IAM builds on 4 pillars of activities (integrated surveillance, vector control, social mobilisation, and multisectoral collaboration) and 4 supporting activities (capacity building, advocacy, policies and laws, and research). Activities are tailored to local scenarios of Aedes distribution and virus transmission risk (see Box 1 for definition of terms). aA. aegypti; bA. albopictus. IAM, Integrated Aedes Management; ITC, insecticide treated curtain; M&E, monitoring and evaluation; NGO, nongovernmental organisation; S, scenario.
Table 1.
Integrated surveillance and M&E of Aedes and Aedes-borne diseases.
Table 2.
Vector control tools for Aedes mosquito control.
Strength of evidence is based only on recent systematic reviews and meta-analysis studies carried out in the last 5 years. We used scores to rank the ‘strength of evidence’ based on study designs used for assessing the efficacy of vector control interventions as proposed by Wilson and colleagues (2015) for epidemiological trials (1, 2a, 2b). We created 2 new ‘levels of evidence’ (3a and 3b) to distinguish randomised versus nonrandomised (observational) ‘entomology’ trials.
Table 3.
Framework for promoting intra- and intersectoral collaboration.