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Toxic Entanglements: Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 49, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the outsourcing of asylum processing and resettlement from Global North to South. Many of these containment practices retrace the fault lines of more typically thought‐of colonial extractive regimes. This article draws on long‐term ethnographic research conducted in the Republic of Nauru, the world'
Julia Morris
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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases workshop report: "Chlamydia vaccines: The way forward". [PDF]

, 2019
Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct), an intracellular pathogen, is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection. In addition to acute cervicitis and urethritis, Ct can lead to serious sequelae of significant public health burden including pelvic ...
Brunham, Robert C, Darville, Toni, de la Maza, Luis M, Deal, Carolyn, Zhong, Guangming   +4 more
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IUCN Red List Regional Assessment of the Flora of Niue Utilising Indigenous Local Knowledge and Botanical Information

Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 56, Issue 2, April 2026.
A regional assessment of the indigenous vascular plants of Niue is presented using the IUCN Red List criteria. The assessment was undertaken during a community workshop that drew on the indigenous local knowledge and scientific information. The assessment comprised 197 named taxa and 8 indeterminate entities, with 4 (2.0%) taxa assessed as Extinct and ...
Peter B. Heenan, Huggard E. Tongatule, Workshop Panel   +2 more
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The impact of climatic risk factors on the prevalence, distribution, and severity of acute and chronic trachoma.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2013
Background and objectivesTrachoma is the most common cause of infectious blindness. Hot, dry climates, dust and water scarcity are thought to be associated with the distribution of trachoma but the evidence is unclear.
Anita Ramesh, Sari Kovats, Dominic Haslam, Elena Schmidt, Clare E Gilbert   +4 more
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Prevalence and associations of active trachoma among rural preschool children in Wadla district, northern Ethiopia

BMC Ophthalmology, 2020
Background Trachoma is a neglected eye disease and an important cause of preventable corneal blindness. In endemic areas, initial infection can occur in early childhood and following a recurrent episodes, it progresses to scarring and visual impairment ...
Mesfin Wudu Kassaw, Ayele Mamo Abebe, Kirubel Dagnaw Tegegne, Mikiyas Amare Getu, Woldemichael Tadesse Bihonegn   +4 more
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Time to Blindness and Associated Factors Among Glaucoma Patients Under Treatment at Governmental Hospitals in Amhara Region, Ethiopia; Application of Gamma Shared Frailty Accelerate Failure Time Model

Health Science Reports, Volume 9, Issue 3, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Background and Aims In Ethiopia, glaucoma and related cases account for 5.2% of the irreversible blindness and is the fifth main cause of blindness. The aim of this study was to investigate the time to blindness and associated factors among glaucoma patients under treatment at government hospitals in Amhara region, Ethiopia.
Awoke Seyoum Tegegne, Nurye Seid Muhie
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Active trachoma and ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection in two Gambian regions: on course for elimination by 2020?

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2009
BackgroundTrachoma has been endemic in The Gambia for decades. National trachoma control activities have been in place since the mid-1980's, but with no mass antibiotic treatment campaign.
Emma M Harding-Esch, Tansy Edwards, Ansumana Sillah, Isatou Sarr, Chrissy H Roberts, Paul Snell, Esther Aryee, Sandra Molina, Martin J Holland, David C W Mabey, Robin L Bailey   +10 more
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Linear growth in preschool children treated with mass azithromycin distributions for trachoma: A cluster-randomized trial. [PDF]

, 2019
BackgroundMass azithromycin distributions have been shown to reduce mortality among pre-school children in sub-Saharan Africa. It is unclear what mediates this mortality reduction, but one possibility is that antibiotics function as growth promoters for ...
Aiemjoy, Kristen, Callahan, E Kelly, Cotter, Sun Y, Emerson, Paul M, Gebresillasie, Sintayehu, Haile, Berhan A, Keenan, Jeremy D, Lietman, Thomas M, Porco, Travis C, Ray, Kathryn J, Stoller, Nicole E, Tadesse, Zerihun   +11 more
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Prospective of indigenous African wild food plants in alleviation of the severe iron deficiency anaemia in Sub‐Saharan Africa

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 486-498, March 2026.
Iron deficiency anaemia remains a major public health challenge in Sub‐Saharan Africa, where population growth, displacement and limited resources heighten nutritional insecurity. We compiled a list of indigenous African underutilized wild food plants and examined their potential for addressing micronutrient deficiencies.
Eltayb Abdellatef, Yohannes Gedamu Gebre, Petra Bauer   +2 more
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Gametocyte carriage in Plasmodium falciparum-infected travellers. [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Gametocytes are the sexual stage of Plasmodium parasites. The determinants of gametocyte carriage have been studied extensively in endemic areas, but have rarely been explored in travellers with malaria.
Armstrong, Margaret, Boadi, Samuel, Chiodini, Peter L, Doherty, Tom, Roberts, Catherine H, Sutherland, Colin J, Warren, Simon, Zatyka, Ewa   +7 more
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