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RAMS-AID Research - Dengue Decision Support System Project

Other resources: Web-based information

Insecticide and insecticide resistance information

World Health Organization – Pesticides Evaluation Scheme (WHOPES)
http://www.who.int/whopes/en/

World Health Organization – General information on insecticide resistance
http://www.who.int/whopes/resistance/en/

World Health Organization – Supplies for monitoring insecticide resistance in disease vectors
http://www.who.int/whopes/resistance/en/WHO_CDS_CPE_PVC_2001.2.pdf

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Evaluating mosquitoes for insecticide resistance (web-based instructions)
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/wbt/resistance/toc.htm

Insecticide Resistance Action Committee – Public Health
http://www.irac-online.org/Public_Health/Home.asp

African Network on Vector Resistance
http://www.afro.who.int/vbc/index.html
http://www.afro.who.int/des/phe/publications/anvr_tech_report.pdf

Dengue databases and web-mapping

World Health Organization – DengueNet
http://www.who.int/globalatlas/default.asp

Pan American Health Organization – Atlas
http://www.paho.org/Spanish/DD/AIS/indexatlas.htm

Databases and web-mapping for other vector-borne diseases

MARA/ARMA (Mapping Malaria Risk in Africa)
http://www.mara.org.za/

Malaria Atlas Project
http://www.map.ox.ac.uk/MAP_data.html

World Health Organization – Public health mapping and GIS map library
http://gamapserver.who.int/mapLibrary/default.aspx

Google Earth and Geographic Information System software

Google Earth
http://earth.google.com/
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php/Cat/0

The HealthMapper (World Health Organization)
http://www.who.int/health_mapping/tools/healthmapper/en/index.html
http://www.who.int/gisresource/popups/software_healthmapper_faq.asp

SIGEpi (Pan American Health Organization)
http://ais.paho.org/sigepi/index.asp

EpiInfo (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention )
http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/Epi6/ei6.htm

ArcGIS (ESRI, Environmental Systems Research Institute)
http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/index.html

Research and funding initiatives for vector-borne diseases

Innovative Vector Control Consortium
http://www.ivcc.com/

Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative
http://www.pdvi.org/

World Health Organization Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases
http://www.who.int/tdr/

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - Global Health Program
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/GlobalHealth/

Google Earth - Public Health
http://earth.google.com/outreach/p_health.html