Call to join second phase of ‘Project No Fever’

Project started last year as a community-based initiative to fight viral fevers in twin cities

Indian Institute of Public Health (IIPH)-Hyderabad, in partnership with Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, Dakshas Foundation and Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, has invited educational institutions, residential welfare associations, gated communities and non-governmental organisations to join, volunteer and support the second extended phase of ‘Project No Fever’. The project started last year as a community-based initiative to fight viral fevers in the twin cities and is aimed at creating and designing integrated community-based vector containment strategies to support, empower and create awareness to reduce incidence of dengue fever and its complications, said IIPH-Hyderabad director G.V.S. Murthy. Dengue and COVID-19 share common clinical and laboratory features, confusing diagnosis and management and also exist as co-infection exhibiting illness with overlapping signs and symptoms such as fever and aches which can cause confusion and may contribute to the delay in the diagnosis and treatment.