J Gynecol Oncol | Volume 5, Issue 1 | Research Article | Open Access

Indigenous Knowledge, Attitude and Practices (KAP) of People about Leishmaniasis and Its Vector Sand Fly (Phlebotominae: Psychodidae: Diptera) Living in an Urban Settlement in South Punjab, Pakistan

Masood Bokhari SH¹, Ullah UN¹, Akram W^2*, Saeed S¹ and Arshad M²

¹Department of Entomology, Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture, Pakistan
²Department of Entomology, University of Agriculture, Pakistan

^*Correspondance to: Waseem Akram 

Abstract

Densely populated cities in the world are facing serious health concerns vectored by insects and other arthropods. The same has been true for Multan, where Leishmaniasis has become a regularly reported disease. A total of 203 patients were reported from OPD of Civil Hospital, Multan in 2015. For the study, a cross sectional survey was conducted in Multan city. Total 496 householdrespondents were selected by using the simple random sampling technique. Respondents included 73.4%, 26.2% and 0.4% males, females and she-males, respectively, whose knowledge about the vector of the disease was very poor and only 2.4% told that the disease was vectored by an insect, but no one could tell the name (sand fly). The data so collected is thus considered of significant importance as it would be utilized in management programs against the disease and its vector sand fly.

Keywords:

KAP; Leishmaniasis; Local people; Multan; Sand fly

Citation:

Masood Bokhari SH, Ullah UN, Akram W, Saeed S, Arshad M. Indigenous Knowledge, Attitude and Practices (KAP) of People about Leishmaniasis and Its Vector Sand Fly (Phlebotominae: Psychodidae: Diptera) Living in an Urban Settlement in South Punjab, Pakistan. J Gynecol Oncol. 2022; 5(1): 1071.