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Cross-border malaria in the triple border region between Brazil, Venezuela and Guyana

Scientific Reports, 2022
The state of Roraima, in Brazil, has recently seen an increase in the number of reported Plasmodium falciparum infections believed to be imported from neighboring countries.
Rispah Abdallah, Jaime Louzada, C. Carlson, Dragan Ljolje, V. Udhayakumar, J. Oliveira-Ferreira, N. Lucchi   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evaluating the impact of small-scale mining on the achievement of the sustainable development goals in Guyana

, 2021
The artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector in Guyana has, over the last decade, become the main engine for economic growth, the key source of foreign exchange and a vital source of employment across the country.
T. Laing, Stephan Moonsammy
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The association between gold mining and malaria in Guyana: a statistical inference and time-series analysis

Lancet Planetary Health, 2021
Summary Background Guyana reported a significant rise in malaria between 2008 and 2014. As there was no evidence of impairment of national malaria control strategies, public health authorities attributed the surge to a temporal increase in gold mining ...
P. M. De Salazar, H. Cox, Helen Imhoff, Jean S F Alexandre, C. Buckee   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Understanding the role of disease knowledge and risk perception in shaping preventive behavior for selected vector-borne diseases in Guyana

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2020
Background Individual behavior, particularly choices about prevention, plays a key role in infection transmission of vector-borne diseases (VBDs). Since the actual risk of infection is often uncertain, individual behavior is influenced by the perceived ...
C. Aerts, M. Revilla, L. Duval, K. Paaijmans, Javin Chandrabose, H. Cox, E. Sicuri   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

COVID-19 effects on municipality waste collection services for households: statistical modelling of perspectives from Guyana and Nigeria

Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management, 2021
The novel COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the functioning of solid waste management globally as households experience an increase in their waste and a change in waste collection services.
Stephan Moonsammy, T. Oyedotun, D. Renn-Moonsammy, T. Oyedotun, N. Ally, O. Kasim, Ayomide Famewo   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Video-mediated dialogue for promoting equity in protected area conservation

Oryx, 2023
Improving equity in the context of protected areas conservation cannot be achieved in situations where people have different capabilities to participate.
Jayalaxshmi Mistry, Deirdre Jafferally, Sean Mendonca, Rebecca Xavier, Grace Albert, Bernie Robertson, Ena George, Ryan Benjamin, Lisa Ingwall-King   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparative Study of the Antibiotic Potency of Natural (Cyanthillium cinereum and Moringa oleifera) and Synthetic (Ampicillin and Erythromycin) Antibiotics

Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, 2020
The aim of this study was to compare the antibiotic potency of Cyanthillium cinereum and Moringa oleifera (natural antibiotics) against Ampicillin and Erythromycin (synthetic antibiotics) using zone of inhibition and both the natural and synthetic ...
Tresonne Headley, Ruth Daniel, Elford Liverpool, Abdullah Adil Ansari   +3 more
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High Yield Pedagogy and FOAM as Dynamic Drivers of Building Human Capital and Successful Pandemic Rapid Responses in a Low Middle Income Country

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2022
Purpose: We hypothesized that utilizing a High Yield Pedagogy Model of our own design would result in a successful self-sufficient pandemic response capacity in a Resource Limited Environment by promoting rapid upscaling of skilled clinician-educators ...
S. Smith, M. Seepersaud, A. Marrero, T. Davidson   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Independent Emergence of thePlasmodium falciparumKelch Propeller Domain Mutant Allele C580Y in Guyana

Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2016
Stella Chenet, Lise Musset, Alexandre Macedo De Oliveira   +2 more
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Newly appointed principals' challenges in learning and adjusting to school culture

Heliyon, 2022
This study explored the lived experiences of two new principals of secondary schools. It focused on the principals' experiences of learning the school culture through interactions with the staff and attempting changes which they felt were necessary for ...
Jill A. Medford, Troy Brown
doaj   +1 more source