In recent decades, the incidence of arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) has increased dramatically due to multiple interconnected factors, including rapid urbanization and population growth. While the mortality statistics are disturbing, they misinterpret the significance of morbidity that represents the human cost of these diseases in which permanent disability, lost productivity, and societal exclusion often contribute to desolation and poverty. Although quantifying the burden of disease is challenging, it is estimated that one billion infections and one million deaths annually can be attributed to mosquito-borne diseases. Suboptimal living conditions and polluted environments frequently overlap, creating circumstances in which medically important pathogens and their mosquito vectors thrive to enhance the rate of transmission and epidemic outbreaks. Despite implementation of disease management strategies, including preventive chemotherapy, vector control, and social mobilization, that seek to reduce the clinical burden, more than 3.5 billion people worldwide are still at risk of contracting vector borne diseases. Mosquito-borne illnesses present a continuing threat to global health security. The results of the investigation, which are likely applicable to many other Caribbean nations and other countries with heavy arboviral disease burdens, were supportive of supplementation of existing vector control strategies through the use of the yeast RNAi-based ovitraps. A need for educational campaigns that provide a mechanism for educating stakeholders about vector ecology and management was highlighted. Stakeholders provided valuable input on product design, distribution, and operation.

Most study participants reported a general willingness to purchase an ovitrap on condition that it would be affordable and safe for human health and the environment. A comparison of the types of stakeholder input communicated through use of the three assessment tools highlighted the utility and merit of using each tool for assessing new global health interventions. These activities facilitated evaluation of the hypothesis that the ovitraps would be broadly accepted by community stakeholders as a means of biorational control for Aedes mosquitoes. Three forms of assessment, including paper surveys, community forums, and household interviews, were used with the goal of evaluating local community stakeholdersвЂ™ knowledge of mosquitoes, vector control practices, and perceptions of the new technology. In an effort to create public awareness of this alternative vector control strategy, gain stakeholder feedback regarding product design and acceptance of the new intervention, and build capacity for its potential integration into existing mosquito control programs, this investigation pursued community stakeholder engagement activities, which were undertaken in Trinidad and Tobago. This intervention circumvents increasing issues with insecticide resistance and poses no known threat to non-target organisms. Yeast interfering RNA-baited larval lethal ovitraps are being developed as a novel biorational control tool for Aedes mosquitoes. Aedes mosquitoes, the primary vectors responsible for transmitting these viral pathogens, continue to flourish due to local challenges in vector control management. Severson, Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing вЂ“ review & editing, 1, 2, 3, 4 and Molly Duman-Scheel, Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing вЂ“ original draft, Writing вЂ“ review & editing 2, 4, *Дengue, Zika, chikungunya and yellow fever viruses continue to be a major public health burden.

James, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, 1 Azad Mohammed, Project administration, Supervision, Writing вЂ“ review & editing, 1 David W. Hapairai, Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing вЂ“ review & editing, 2, 4 Lester D.

Wiltshire, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing вЂ“ original draft, Writing вЂ“ review & editing, 2, 4 Limb K. Stewart, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing вЂ“ original draft, Writing вЂ“ review & editing, # 1 Jessica Igiede, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing вЂ“ original draft, Writing вЂ“ review & editing, 2, 3, 4 Rachel M. Nikhella Winter, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing вЂ“ original draft, Writing вЂ“ review & editing, # 1 Akilah T.

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