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BEYOND ‘BAD DENSITY’ AND TERRITORIAL STIGMA: An Infrastructure Access Lens on Suburban Exclusion
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Segregation and social exclusion in postwar suburban housing estates are typically addressed as problems of residential location. For decades, postwar suburbs in all corners of the world have been targeted as designated sites of punitive urban intervention, grounded in territorial stigma and normative notions of density.
André Klaassen, Greet De Block
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The hidden effects of COVID-19 on HIV services in Zanzibar: country report
AIDS Research and Therapy, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major effect on HIV-related healthcare services. Zanzibar has experienced several interruptions of HIV services in the areas of testing and counselling, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, key population ...
Mansour Maulid Mshenga +5 more
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Evaluation of Immunodiagnostic Tests for Leprosy in Brazil, China and Ethiopia
Scientific Reports, 2018 Leprosy remains persistently endemic in several low- or middle income countries. Transmission is still ongoing as indicated by the unabated rate of leprosy new case detection, illustrating the insufficiency of current prevention methods.
Anouk van Hooij +13 more
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Immunosenescence Profile Is Associated With Increased Susceptibility to Severe COVID‐19
Aging Cell, EarlyView.(A) A previous immunosenescence profile in individuals infected with SARS‐CoV2 creates a permissive environment for progression to severe COVID‐19: higher inflammaging, accumulation of exhausted/senescent T cells, an oligoclonal B‐cell repertoire, and accelerated epigenetic age.
Lucas Haniel A. Ventura +40 more
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Macrophage Polarization in Leprosy–HIV Co-infected Patients
Frontiers in Immunology, 2020 In HIV-infected individuals, a paradoxical clinical deterioration may occur in preexisting leprosy when highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART)-associated reversal reaction (RR) develops.
Tatiana Pereira da Silva +10 more
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Allergy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drug‐induced immune reactions are an important burden for patients and health systems. They can be classified into immediate‐drug hypersensitivity reactions (IDHRs) and delayed‐DHRs (DDHRs) based on their phenotype. Drugs do not always behave as allergens and need to bind to proteins, forming adducts.
C. Mayorga +7 more
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History of leprosy in Malta [PDF]
, 2008 Leprosy was always viewed with aborrhence requiring segregation of the unfortunate sufferers. The policy of segregation in dedicated leprosaria, initially introduced during the Medieval Period, was re-adopted during the late 19th century and persisted ...
Buttigieg, George Gregory +2 more
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PLoS ONE, 2018 BACKGROUND Leprosy remains a major stigmatizing condition. Stigma is a dynamic process resulting from the interaction between physical attributes caused by leprosy and the existing stereotypes in a community. Leprosy has pervasive impacts on all areas of
S. Marahatta +8 more
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Introduction to “Laboring from ex‐centric Sites: Disability, Chronicity, and Work”
Anthropology of Work Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The transition to industrial regimes has produced new categories of people deemed “unfit” for labor. Even if these boundaries are more porous nowadays, contributions to this Special Issue reveal continuities in how people struggle for a place in domains of work that are ill‐shaped to accommodate their diverse bodyminds.
Giorgio Brocco, Stefanie Mauksch
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2018 Leprosy reactions are responsible for incapacities in leprosy and represent the major cause of permanent neuropathy. The identification of biomarkers able to identify patients more prone to develop reaction could contribute to adequate clinical ...
Mayara Garcia de Mattos Barbosa +10 more
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