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Fungal neglected tropical diseases
Abstract This article provides an overview of the neglected tropical diseases caused by fungi, which include mycetoma, chromoblastomycosis and sporotrichosis. These are chronic infections of the skin and subcutaneous tissue that can be locally destructive, leading to disfigurement and disability.
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Social and Emotional Functions of Institutional Touch in the Relational Care of Young Children
ABSTRACT This study reports results concerning close embodied practices, involving touch, in early childhood care settings in Sweden during the COVID‐19 pandemic. The data—video recordings of everyday practices in contexts of childcare—were collected during various phases of the pandemic. The study demonstrates a broad range of uses of touch, by adults
Asta Cekaite, Madeleine Wirzén
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Informal supply chains of wild meat from rural Amazonia and food security in an urban center
Abstract Iquitos, the most populated city in the Peruvian Amazon, is a hub in the regional supply chain of wild meat and supplies urban consumers. Studies on wild meat consumption have focused primarily on markets, limiting the scope of species considered to those that are economically valuable and potential inferences from those data.
Fiorella Briceño Huerta +3 more
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Abstract Over the past decades, climate change has emerged as a major threat to global biodiversity, negatively affecting the integrity and functioning of ecosystems and the benefits they provide to people. To mitigate these impacts, it is essential to identify climate refugia that support the persistence of the structure and function of reef ...
Sara M. Melo‐Merino +4 more
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Risks of concealing environmental degradation
Abstract Current practice seeks to conceal the visual impact of land‐use change (i.e., development). Six percent of development impact assessments in Australia and 14% of the World Bank's assessments recommend visual impact mitigation. This mitigation results in, for example, vegetated buffer strips alongside cleared agricultural areas and earthen ...
Matt W. Hayward +8 more
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000125.].
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Editors
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Neglected tropical diseases: ending the neglect of populations [PDF]
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Black Fugitivity in the Sporting Workplace: The Story of Eniola Aluko
ABSTRACT Being a Black fugitive involves constant movement: to find and cultivate spaces of safety and hope. In this paper, I curate a sporting archive about the UK Black women's elite football player Eniola Aluko to read her as a Black fugitive. I demonstrate how she traversed a racist and anti‐Black sporting workplace—where she was unfairly demonized
Aarti Ratna
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ABSTRACT This paper examines the positioning of elite Black African women in extractive labor spaces, arguing that their experiences are shaped by interrelated feminist concepts of care, time, experience, equality, and difference. Using an African feminist theoretical framework, the study recenters African epistemologies of work and embodiment to ...
Nerea Amisi Okong'o
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