Resistance to Pesticides used in Public Health. Interaction between Science and Health Management

MARTI G. A

La Plata

Congreso; II Congreso Latinoamericano de Ecología de Vectores (LA SOVE); 2022

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Resistance management requires vector surveillance, prevention, and control activities that are based on scientific knowledge and that are carried out by the health management system. Despite the various tools developed to date for pest control, the use of pesticides remains part of the control strategies aimed at vectors of human diseases. Given the evolution of resistance to pesticides in triatomines and culicids, it is extremely necessary to have new alternatives for their management. In this sense, one of the objectives of the Red Argentina de Vigilancia de la Resistencia a los Plaguicidas de uso en Salud Pública (RAReP, Argentine Network for the Surveillance of Resistance to Pesticides for Use in Public Health) scientific-technical committee is to evaluate alternative insecticide control strategies and promote their rational use, optimising control actions from the perspective of integrated pest management. In this Symposium, the RAReP will be presented in the scientific field, possible alternatives to insecticides will be proposed for an integrated management of insect vectors, such as biological control, and the problem of Chagas in the urban sphere will be addressed, a new scenario that has increased during the last years. For this, the Symposium will begin with an introduction by the moderator where the needs of establishing the Network, its objectives, its components and difficulties will be described, and will continue with the development of research work within the RAReP framework. Finally, the Symposium will have a discussion section where the speakers and the rest of the attendees will discuss what has been presented, including the need for extending this discussion between the scientific field and government management in all problems in which this interaction is necessary.