Theme 1: A TBV might be a superior intervention to current prevention and treatment options |
“It’s necessary for not infecting other people; my daughter has gastritis from getting sick so much!”—36 year old male, 12 de Abril |
“So that [the mosquitoes] perhaps won’t transmit, for prevention; besides, it’s better than the pills.”—53 year old male, Santa Rita |
“To not contaminate other people and so that it’s easier to get healthy. You can’t put up with this.”—26 year old female, 12 de Abril |
“It’s better than the pills that give us allergies.”—27 year old female, La Habana |
“It would give time, and there would be someone [healthy] left in the house that could still attend to the sick.”—34 year old female, La Habana |
Theme 2: The concept of transmission blockade is understood and acceptable. |
“So that it doesn’t go on increasing, to not infect the rest.”—29 year old female, San José de Lupuna |
“I wouldn’t want malaria to keep on growing, and this avoids that it passes on to all the others.”—40 year old female, Santa Rita |
“The mosquito will no longer transmit it; if we don’t, it will keep on infecting.”—65 year old male, San Pedro |
“I’m protecting it from transmitting to everybody else.”—39 year old female, Cahuide |
“So that my children don’t get sick and pass it on to all the other children.”—20 year old female, Cahuide |
Theme 3: The altruistic nature of a TBV is not a deterrent |
“We’re avoiding that my partner or a child or grandchild that comes to visit gets sick.”—75 year old male, Cahuide |
“So that the disease doesn’t pass on, to protect the rest. Perhaps it will be that it doesn’t do me any good, but it’s for others.”—35 year old male, La Habana |
“For protecting other people, there’s no problem with that.” 57 year old male, San Pedro |
“So there wouldn’t be so much transmission to other people. I would be protecting my children more than anything.”—33 year old female, Cahuide |
“To protect everyone else from the illness.”—38 year old male, Santa Rita |
Theme 4: Appropriate application of a TBV could lead to regional elimination of malaria |
“The mosquito won’t transmit to other people anymore; if we all vaccinate ourselves, this malaria won’t exist anymore—42 year old female, Cahuide |
“The mosquito will no longer transmit to other people, and we won’t have malaria anymore.”—57 year old female, San José de Lupuna |
“It’s better that we’re not infecting one another anymore. We’d have to vaccinate everyone, then.”—75 year old male, Santa Rita |