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View article: Strengthening diagnostic services in Latin America requires regional leadership, sustainable funding, and enhanced data sharing
Strengthening diagnostic services in Latin America requires regional leadership, sustainable funding, and enhanced data sharing Open
Diagnostic services played a key role in government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. In our work to support diagnostics in over 20 countries of the Global South, with a focus on Latin America, we observed common problems in resource-lim…
View article: The social determinants of maternal and congenital syphilis at the Colombia-Venezuela border: A qualitative study of twenty mothers of newborns with congenital syphilis
The social determinants of maternal and congenital syphilis at the Colombia-Venezuela border: A qualitative study of twenty mothers of newborns with congenital syphilis Open
Humanitarian crises and resulting out-migration have created contexts in which treatable diseases such as syphilis have expanded in prevalence. Untreated syphilis can have potentially irreversible and devastating consequences, especially f…
View article: Repressed memory: Rethinking the impact of Latin America’s forgotten pandemics
Repressed memory: Rethinking the impact of Latin America’s forgotten pandemics Open
The ‘Columbian exchange’ (Crosby) after 1492 mixed bacteria and viruses from the ‘Old’ and the ‘New World’; ever since then, epidemics have shaped the political course of events in Latin America and the Caribbean. While the diseases and th…
View article: When Racial Inequalities Return: Assessing the Restratification of Cuban Society 60 Years After Revolution
When Racial Inequalities Return: Assessing the Restratification of Cuban Society 60 Years After Revolution Open
Few political transformations have attacked social inequalities more thoroughly than the 1959 Cuban Revolution. As the survey data in this article show, however, sixty years on, structural inequalities are returning that echo the prerevolu…
View article: Assessing the Political and Social Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis in Latin America
Assessing the Political and Social Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis in Latin America Open
The COVID-19 pandemic is testing the societies of the world's most unequal continent, where many depend on informal work for their livelihood. Social-distancing measures directly affect their livelihoods, and make immediate social assistan…
View article: Social Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis and the Road Ahead
Social Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis and the Road Ahead Open
Aside from the health challenge, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought an unprecedented social crisis to Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). To avoid a humanitarian disaster, governments across the region have responded with a marked expans…
View article: Cuba's new social structure: Assessing the re-stratification of Cuban society 60 years after revolution
Cuba's new social structure: Assessing the re-stratification of Cuban society 60 years after revolution Open
Few political transformations have attacked social inequalities more thoroughly than the 1959 Cuban Revolution. However, as the survey data in this paper shows, 60 years on, structural inequalities which echo the pre-revolutionary socio-et…
View article: Cuba: heading for a new development and political model – an introduction
Cuba: heading for a new development and political model – an introduction Open
Cuba, this iconic revolutionary island which has brought so much hope to the Third World and, at one point, worry for a nuclear World War III, is going through a process of change never seen since Fidel Castro led his revolutionary forces …
View article: Emigrant Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean
Emigrant Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean Open
Nation-states are no longer contained by their borders. In times of mass migration and ever more dense transnational networks, states of all sizes and all migration profiles reach out to their emigrated citizens in wholly new ways. The var…