In Colombia, a country with a population of 46,722,777 distributed in 1,103 municipalities, the disease has become endemic with frequent outbreaks 6 . Six of 32municipalities showed 55.36% (20,394) of the cases of the fi rst nine months of 2012. Currently all four serotypes circulate throughout the country 7 . A campaign to eradicate Ae. aegypti began in the early 1950s, and the country was said to be free of infestation by 1952. Columbia's Ministry of Health (MoH) operates under the National Plan of Basic Attention Beginning in 2006, the MoH adopted a national integrated control strategy with intersectorial, multidisciplinary, and community participation and a vector control program based mainly on the use of insecticides.We compared levels of consciousness and conduct in one Brazilian and four Colombian communities. These fi eld studies were realized in two stages: I) An entomological survey using the House Index and Breteau Index. In Brazil this survey was done bimonthly over one year (2008); in Colombia, this survey was conducted at three times, time zero (TO), time one (T1), and time two last intervention (T2), from 2008-2010; II) A survey of knowledge, attitudes, and practices of a sample of residents, using a standardized household survey about knowledge of the disease, activities of prevention, and control of vectors, water supply, sanitation, and home reservoirs in Latin America.The Brazilian study site was the neighborhood Santa Rosa in the municipality of Cabo de Santo Agostinho, State of Pernambuco, which is a tourist and port complex of 448 square km with a population of 152,997, 87.9% of whom are urbanized, and with relative socioeconomic homogeneity. Its 813 domiciles manifest a 50% dengue incidence with a ± 5% confi dence interval based on a 263-domicile sample 2 . The N=263/813 households were calculated with an estimated 50% incidence at a ± 5% error interval. The study covered 852 persons, with a mean of four persons per domicile, and the study period was [2007][2008][2009]. In Colombia, four neighborhoods in the municipalities of Apartado (La Alborada and La Arboleda) and Carepa (Obrera and Cadena) in Antioquia State were chosen