Socialization of Dengue Fever (DBD) Prevention Program Through the Use of Abate in Gunung Meriah Village

Abstract

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is a disease transmitted through the bite of the Aedes Aegypti and Aedes Albopictus mosquitoes, spread across Southeast Asia, the West Pacific and the Caribbean. Indonesia is an endemic area with a distribution throughout the country. DHF can attack all ages, has an incubation period of 4-7 days, and symptoms include high fever, rash, muscle and joint pain, and can develop into dengue hemorrhagic fever which causes serious bleeding, drastic drops in blood pressure, and death. In 2024, Indonesia recorded 88,593 cases of DHF and 621 deaths, a significant increase from the previous year. One of the efforts to prevent DHF is to conduct outreach to the community. The methods used in this activity are lectures and questions and answers. Lectures are conducted to disseminate information about the epidemic, eradication, control of DHF and prevention of the spread of DHF through the use of Abate. The activity was carried out in Gunung Meriah Village. The Gunung Meriah village community can utilize knowledge about DHF to eradicate the increase in DHF sufferers. Both at the family and environmental levels through behavioral patterns that prevent mosquitoes from developing, avoiding conditions of places and times where Aedes aegypti mosquitoes usually bite and routinely carrying out prevention efforts through Abate.