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  • Tropical Medicine
  • Community Engagement

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  • Snakebite envenoming is a Neglected Tropical Disease with significant mortality and morbidity, especially in low- and middle-income countries.
  • Current interventions often prioritize clinical management over prevention, despite limited access to healthcare in rural areas.
  • Prevention strategies are crucial for minimizing snakebite impacts, particularly where medical treatment is scarce.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate a participatory workshop intervention aimed at reducing snakebites in rural Uganda.
  • To assess the impact of community engagement on knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to snakebite prevention.
  • To explore the role of understanding snake behavior in mitigating human-snake conflict.

Main Methods:

  • A mixed-methods approach using surveys and semi-structured interviews with workshop attendees and non-attendees.
  • Preliminary testing phase of a community engagement intervention focused on snake behavior and biology.
  • Data collection conducted in rural Uganda between 2022-23.

Main Results:

  • Fear-driven attitudes towards snakes contribute to human-snake conflict and retaliatory killings, sometimes resulting in bites.
  • Workshops successfully challenged negative attitudes, fostering compassion for snakes and reducing conflict.
  • Workshop attendees demonstrated increased awareness of diverse prevention methods, favoring less harmful and more effective strategies like 'giving snakes space' and seeking hospital treatment.

Conclusions:

  • Community engagement, by enhancing knowledge of snake behavior, can significantly improve snakebite prevention practices.
  • Local communities possess inherent knowledge for snakebite prevention, which can be leveraged through participatory approaches.
  • Interventions that build compassion and understanding are effective in reducing human-snake conflict and promoting safer coexistence with snakes.