GCRF Vector-borne disease control in Venezuela Network

在过去的二十年里，委内瑞拉陷入了深刻的社会经济和政治危机。委内瑞拉曾被公认为公共卫生和病媒控制的区域领导者，但其医疗保健和卫生研究基础设施已陷入崩溃状态，造成了严重的人道主义危机和前所未有的病媒传播疾病爆发。“全球挑战研究基金委内瑞拉媒介传播疾病控制网络”（GCRF VeConVen Network）将支持委内瑞拉和区域媒介传播研究，开发创新和跨学科方法，以解决具有挑战性的环境中的媒介传播疾病控制问题，并为委内瑞拉早期职业研究人员提供培训，以重建当地的研究能力。在目前病媒传染疾病紧急情况的背景下，高感染率以及缺乏适当治疗对社区的健康和福利产生了负面影响，特别是在委内瑞拉，但也在哥伦比亚、巴西和厄瓜多尔，对生计和教育产生了连锁反应。区域研究科学家之间的合作对于促进循证干预措施以应对当前危机至关重要。GCRF VeConVen网络将创建一个论坛，与地区卫生部、非政府组织和国际机构进行反馈和接触，以改善这些官方发展援助受援国的健康和福利。

Over the last two decades, Venezuela has entered a deep socioeconomic and political crisis. Once recognised as a regional leader for public health and vector control, Venezuela's healthcare and health research infrastructure has fallen into a state of collapse, creating a severe humanitarian crisis and an unprecedented outbreak of vector-borne disease. The 'Global Challenges Research Fund Vector-borne disease control in Venezuela Network' (GCRF VeConVen Network) will support Venezuelan and regional vector-borne research, develop innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to addressing vector-borne disease control in challenging settings, and provide training for Venezuelan early career researchers to rebuild local research capacity. In the context of the current vector-borne disease emergency, high prevalence of infection, as well as the lack of adequate treatment, is negatively impacting health and welfare of communities especially in Venezuela, but also in Colombia, Brazil and Ecuador with knock-on effects for livelihoods and education. Cooperation among regional research scientists is vital to promote evidence-based interventions to deal with the current crisis. The GCRF VeConVen Network will create a forum to feed-forward and engage with regional health ministries, non-governmental and international bodies to improve health and welfare in these Official Development Assistance recipient countries.