Cross-border malaria in Northern Brazil
Cross-border malaria is a major barrier to elimination efforts. Along the Venezuela-Brazil-Guyana border, intense human mobility fueled primarily by a humanitarian crisis and illegal gold mining activities has... (Source: Malaria Journal)
Source: Malaria Journal - March 6, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Nicholas J. Arisco, Cassio Peterka and Marcia C. Castro Tags: Research Source Type: research
Embedding research into health services in Latin America and the Caribbean: experiences and challenges of the Technical Support CenterExperi ências e desafios do Centro de Apoio Técnico na pesquisa integrada aos serviços na América Latina e Caribe
This article describes the main models for embedding research and the successful experiences and challenges faced in joint work by researchers and decisionmakers who participated in the Embedding Research for the Sustainable Development Goals (ER-SDG) initiative, and the experience of the Technical Support Center. In June 2018, funding was granted to 13 pre-selected research projects from 11 middle- and low-income countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Paraguay, and Peru). The projects focused on the system-, policy-, or pro...
Source: Pan American Journal of Public Health - March 1, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: V íctor Becerril-Montekio Pilar Torres-Pereda Luis Alberto Garc ía-Bello Jacqueline Alcalde-Rabanal Source Type: research
[A long distance between home and hospital does not bother ambulatory surgery for ureteroscopy in French Guyana].
CONCLUSION: Ambulatory URS is possible without further complications in selected patients living beyond 100km from the hospital, because of a specific organisation and an appropriate training of the caregivers involved in postoperative patient care.
LEVEL OF PROOF: 3.
PMID: 33531219 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Progres en Urologie)
Source: Progres en Urologie - February 5, 2021 Category: Urology & Nephrology Tags: Prog Urol Source Type: research
Sorcery and well-being: bodily transformation at Beckeranta.
Authors: Whitaker JA
Abstract
This paper examines bodily transformation and well-being within the context of a millenarian movement that emerged during the 1840s in the area surrounding Mount Roraima at the periphery of Brazil, Guyana (British Guiana at the time), and Venezuela. The site of this movement was Beckeranta - meaning 'Land of the Whites' - where up to 400 Amerindians were reportedly killed in a quest that is described in its sole historical account as centred around a goal of bodily transformation into white people. In examining this movement, the paper engages with longstanding debates in medi...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - January 16, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Anthropol Med Source Type: research
Providing Care to LGBT Patients in Guyana: An Assessment of Medical Providers ’ Knowledge, Attitudes and Readiness to Learn
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Source: International Journal of Sexual Health - December 8, 2020 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Nastassia Rambarran Jeffrey Goodman Joel Simpson Source Type: research
