Presence of a community outreach program that also covers arboviral diseases

Community outreach program presence, leadership, and geographic scope (ref Q43, 43b, 43c)

Country	In place	Entity in charge	Scope
Bangladesh	Yes	Community Clinics	Countrywide
Bhutan	Yes	Primary Health Centres on suspected arboviral and to the Village Health workers for referral of fever cases to the health centres	Only selected areas Mobile clinics and fever surveillance
India	Yes	State and district VBD officers under Vector-Borne Disease Control Programme	Countrywide
Indonesia	Yes	National Arbovirus Control Programme	Countrywide
Maldives	Yes	Community Health Workers, Maldives Red Crescent and Women Development Committee members in local councils.	Countrywide
Myanmar	Yes	Vector-Borne Disease Control and Health Literacy Promotion Unit	Countrywide
Nepal	No
Sri Lanka	Yes	NDCU; Health Promotion Bureau; Provincial/ Regional Directorates of Health Services; Medical Officers of Health Units	Countrywide
Thailand	Yes	NGO, University	I don't know
Timor-Leste	Yes	DNSP – Community Health Inspector

Is the community outreach/social mobilization program sufficiently funded to cover staff time, prevention and outreach activities as needed? (ref Q43d)

Country	Response
Bangladesh	No
Bhutan	No
India	Yes
Indonesia	Don't know
Maldives	No
Myanmar	No
Nepal
Sri Lanka	Yes
Thailand	Don't know
Timor-Leste	No

Resources needed to ensure adequate community outreach capacity (ref Q43e)

Country	Educational materials for the public	Educational and reference materials for providers	Educational and reference materials for local health departments	Additional staff	Staff training	Other
Bangladesh	X			X	X
Bhutan	X	X	X	X	X
India	X	X	X	X	X
Indonesia	X	X	X	X	X
Maldives	X	X	X	X	X
Myanmar	X	X	X	X	X
Sri Lanka	X	X	X	X	X
Thailand	X
Timor-Leste	X	X	X	X	X	Logistic and financial support

Regular training sessions for staff in charge of community sensitization, mobilisation and acceptance of interventions dedicated to control arboviral diseases (ref Q45)

Country	Response	Comments
Bangladesh	Yes	Clinical management of dengue and chikungunya.
Bhutan	Yes	Case management for community health workers, Community Action Group, Village health workers on fever case referral and breeding source reduction and community ownership of health and environment.
India	Yes	Not on regular basis and not in all states/districts.
Indonesia	I don't know
Maldives	Yes	As part of their training community health staff at Public Health Units receive training on community mobilization.
Myanmar	No
Nepal	Yes	Yes but regular means most of the times annually. But this does not guarantee that all staff are trained.
Sri Lanka	Yes	Intermittent training sessions during outbreaks and clean up campaigns
Thailand	Yes	Campaign in Asean Dengue Day
Timor-Leste	No