Social Technologies and Environmental Education for Vector Control of Arbovirosis: Promoting Health and Quality of Life in Paraiba’s Semiarid Region, Brazil (2016-2019)
ZIKATECSOC is a project of the WATERLAT-GOBACIT Network’s Thematic Area 5, Water and Health, with a strong contribution to the “education” section of Thematic Area 7, Art, Communication, Culture, and Education, and to Thematic Area 3, Urban Water Cycle and Essential Public Services.
The project is funded by Brazil’s National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), an agency of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications (MCTIC), and by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), a foundation of the Ministry of Education (MEC), Public Call (in Portuguese) MCTIC/FNDCT-CNPq/ MEC-CAPES/ MS-Decit / Nº 14/2016 – Prevention and Fight against the Zika virus. Thematic Section V – Development of social technologies and innovation in environmental and sanitary education.
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Project Objectives
General Objective
Promoting health and quality of life with innovative training actions (education for environmental citizenship), able to foster the interrelation education-health and the development of processes, techniques and technologies that can be socially appropriated and may contribute to enhance well being in the region.
Specific Objectives
Promoting the popularisation of techniques, technologies, and innovations of systems to collect, store, manage and supply rainwater, jointly with local communities, as a strategy to contribute towards water, food and sanitary security, eliminating the possibility of the proliferation of vectors of the Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya viruses in these systems;
Promoting the popularisation of techniques, technologies and innovations of systems for the reuse of industrial and domestic wastewater, jointly with local communities, as a strategy to contribute towards forage processing and sanitary security, como estratégia de contribuir com a segurança forrageira e sanitária, eliminating the possibility of the proliferation of vectors of the Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya viruses in these systems;
Supporting public policy interventions for water, food, forage, and sanitary security, jointly with local communities, through the implementation of demonstration units in schools, which will be composed of rainwater collection and management systems, wastewater reuse, and cultivation of species adapted to semi-arid conditions, adopting the methodological framework developed by the National Institute of the Semiarid (INSA) and the State University of Paraíba (UEPB);
Delivering training courses for teachers and tutors in sanitary and agrifood education, for the continuing enhancement of local agents for the diffusion and innovation of processes to favour the interrelation between education and health, whether in relation to unfamiliar interventions, in the strengthening of municipal sanitation plans, solid waste management, and epidemiological control.
Research Team
Coordinator
Cidoval Morais de Sousa, State University of Paraiba, Paraiba, Brazil (UEPB)
Researchers
Wellington Candeia de Araujo, State University of Paraiba
Antonio Roberto Faustino da Costa, State University of Paraiba
Celia Regina Diniz, State University of Paraiba
Beatriz Susana Ovruski de Ceballos, State University of Paraiba
Leonardo Bezerra de Melo Tinoco, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba
José Luciano Albino Barbosa, National Institute of the Semiarid (INSA), Paraíba, Brasil
Shirley de Alves dos Santos, State University of Paraiba
Elida Barbosa Correa, State University of Paraiba
Colaborators
André Monteiro Costa, Aggeu Magalhães Research Centre (CPqAM), Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Pernambuco, Brazil
Ângela Maria Cavalcanti Ramalho, State University of Paraiba
Salomão de Sousa Medeiros, National Institute of the Semiarid (INSA)
José Irivaldo Alves de Oliveira Silva, Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Paraíba, Brazil
International Colaborators
José Esteban Castro, Principal Researcher, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina, and Emeritus Professor, Newcastle University, United Kingdom. Co-ordinator of the WATERLAT-GOBACIT Network.
For additional information about the Project, contact the Co-ordinator.