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Prevention and treatment of tropical diseases

Some of the strategies for controlling tropical diseases include:

• Draining wetlands to reduce populations of insects and other vectors, or introducing natural predators of the vectors.
• The application of insecticides and/or insect repellents) to strategic surfaces such as clothing, skin, buildings, insect habitats, and bed nets.
• The use of a mosquito net over a bed (also known as a "bed net") to reduce nighttime transmission, since certain species of tropical mosquitoes feed mainly at night.
• Use of water wells, and/or water filtration, water filters, or water treatment with water tablets to produce drinking water free of parasites.
• Sanitation to prevent transmission through human waste.
• In situations where vectors (such as mosquitoes) have become more numerous as a result of human activity, a careful investigation can provide clues: for example, open dumps can contain stagnant water that encourage disease vectors to breed. Eliminating these dumps can address the problem. An education campaign can yield significant benefits at low cost.
• Development and use of vaccines to promote disease immunity.
• Pharmacologic pre-exposure prophylaxis (to prevent disease before exposure to the environment and/or vector).
• Pharmacologic post-exposure prophylaxis (to prevent disease after exposure to the environment and/or vector).
• Pharmacologic treatment (to treat disease after infection or infestation).
• Assisting with economic development in endemic regions. For example, by providing microloans to enable investments in more efficient and productive agriculture. This in turn can help subsistence farming to become more profitable, and these profits can be used by local populations for disease prevention and treatment, with the added benefit of reducing the poverty rate.^{[citation needed]}
• Work has been done to engineer genetically modified mosquitos that cannot spread diseases, such as malaria

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Prevention and treatment of tropical diseases

Vector-borne diseases

Vectors are living organisms that pass disease between humans or from animal to human. The vector carrying the highest number of diseases is the mosquito, which is responsible for the tropical diseases dengue and malaria. Many different approaches have been taken to treat and prevent these diseases.

• Draining wetlands to reduce populations of insects and other vectors, or introducing natural predators of the vectors.
• The application of insecticides and/or insect repellents) to strategic surfaces such as clothing, skin, buildings, insect habitats, and bed nets.
• The use of a mosquito net over a bed (also known as a "bed net") to reduce nighttime transmission, since certain species of tropical mosquitoes feed mainly at night.
• Work has been done to engineer genetically modified mosquitos that cannot spread diseases, such as malaria

Sexually transmitted diseases

Both pharmacologic pre-exposure prophylaxis (to prevent disease before exposure to the environment and/or vector) and pharmacologic post-exposure prophylaxis (to prevent disease after exposure to the environment and/or vector) are used to prevent and treat HIV.

Community approaches

Assisting with economic development in endemic regions can contribute to prevention of tropical diseases. For example, providing microloans or community grants potentially can enable communities to invest in more effective disease prevention technology.

Educational campaigns can aid in the prevention of various diseases. Educating children about how diseases spread and how they can be prevented has proven to be effective in practicing preventative measures. An education campaign can yield significant benefits at low cost.

Other approaches

• Use of water wells, and/or water filtration, water filters, or water treatment with water tablets to produce drinking water free of parasites.
• Sanitation to prevent transmission through human waste.
• Development and use of vaccines to promote disease immunity.