SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues

Paper · Semantic Scholar

Newborn screening initiatives have the potential to mitigate childhood morbidity in Africa, but they also have special ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) that are influenced by issues with the health system, cultural diversity, and limited resources. This scoping review explores the ELSI of newborn screening across Africa to identify key challenges, gaps, and future research needs. A systematic search id…

Reference · Wikidata

disease that is indigenous to tropical or subtropical areas of the world or that occurs principally in those areas

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Tropical diseases are infectious diseases that are prevalent in or unique to tropical and subtropical regions. The diseases are less prevalent in temperate climates, due in part to the occurrence of a cold season, which controls the insect population by forcing hibernation. However, many were present in Northern Europe and Northern America in the 17th and 18th centuries before modern understanding of disease causati…

Book · DOAB

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines the unique implications of the pandemic in the Global South. With international contributors from a variety of disciplines, it investigates the pandemic’s effects on development, medicine, gender (in)equality and human rights among other issues. The book’s assessment offers a discourse on the ways in which the impact of COVID-19 ca…

Full text · Open Library

Image · DPLA

Untreated STDs can kill By Jennifer Cole Lifestyles Editor “It will never happen to me.” When it comes to sexually transmitted diseases, that kind of thinking may get you killed. Two-thirds of STD infections are acquired by people under 25, according to the American Social Health Association. This organization is focusing on human papillomavirus, or genital warts, during April, National STD Awareness Month. Accordin…