
Social Technology for community engagement in monitoring and fighting against epidemiological vectors and supporting decision-making by municipal managers in epidemiological control.
Current Status
By 2025, the project in Santa Luzia do Itanhy, Sergipe, aims to continue the development of a specific device to optimize the identification of iron deficiency anemia. This initiative is a continuation of the hemoglobin (Hb) screening campaign that was resumed in 2024 in the schools of the region.






























Historic
The development of Vectors began in 2019 and the objective was to build an app to engage people in communities in monitoring and controlling outbreaks of epidemiological vectors, with special emphasis on Aedes Aegypti, the mosquito that causes diseases such as Dengue, Chikungunya and Zica.
The app was named CLIC (Caçadores de Lugares Infectados por Criaturas = Hunters of Places Infected by Creatures) and it was fully developed in partnership with health agents from the municipality of Santa Luzia do Itanhy and we generated 3 versions: CLIC – Community; CLIC – Endemic Diseases Agent; CLIC – Dashboard, with these last two versions being integrated into the Brazilian national health systems DataSUS and SisPNDC. CLIC – Comunity is aimed at promoting community engagement and mobilization to monitor and combat vector outbreaks, through gamification strategies. In practice, the user downloads the application and can use it to photograph and georeference vector foci, but also perform an action to destroy the focus, if possible. This action, in turn, needs to be validated by another member of the community and the app has a points and rewards system to encourage community participation. CLIC – Endemic Disease Agent is an application for use by endemic disease agents, replacing the old paper spreadsheets to support the control and monitoring of home visits. CLIC – Dashboard is a tool created to assist decision-making by public managers to more effectively combat vectors of infectious diseases. This version is integrated with various data sources, such as DataSUS, SisPNDC and CLIC – Comunidade, and generates maps and graphs that present to managers the forecast and areas of potential danger for the multiplication of vectors in the region, which enables decision-making to address the spread of vectors, with greater efficiency. To assist with community engagement, Vectors Social Technology also developed the episode “The Community Strikes Back” for the comic book “Artery Wars”, focusing on raising community awareness about vectors and the importance of collective action to prevent epidemiological diseases. The following year, in 2025, the São Paulo State Health Department (SES-SP) partnered with The Human Project to implement the CLIC app in three municipalities in São Paulo: Marília, Santa Bárbara d’Oeste, and São Bernardo do Campo. With a gamification-based approach, the tool seeks to engage the population, especially children and adolescents, in the fight against dengue fever, encouraging photographic documentation and the location of breeding grounds. The information sent by users is directed to municipal health agents. CLIC has already been implemented in several schools in the three municipalities, with the participation of teenagers from the state education network. The gamified format favored the engagement of students, who contributed to the action while having fun, experiencing in practice the role of protagonists in the care of collective health. Recently, to celebrate this innovative initiative, the schools held closing events with awards for students who achieved the highest scores, as well as certificates and other forms of recognition for all who participated. The expectation is that the app will continue to be used among students, who are likely to become key players in the fight against dengue fever, acting as agents of change in their own communities.

Interaction with others projects






