Tag: panama

Without Mosquitoes, there is no Dengue: UM students use HvM to teach Panama youth about vector-borne diseases

[youtube width=”600″ height=”365″ video_id=”1UwFxNza8ac”] During Summer 2014 in the semi-autonomous Panamanian community known as Kuna Yala, a team of University of Miami Public Health and Latin American Studies students participated in an educational intervention to raise awareness about mosquito avoidance and disease prevention among Kuna Yala’s 10-12 year old schoolchildren. They were successful in engaging […]