O’nyong’nyong virus: next arbovirus in Latin America?

Zika: the new arbovirus threat for Latin America.

Next generation of individual account pension reforms in Latin America.

Latin America led the world in introducing individual retirement accounts intended to complement or replace defined benefit state-sponsored, pay-as-you-go systems. After Chile implemented the first system in 1981, a number of other Latin American countries incorporated privately managed individual accounts as part of their retirement income systems beginning in the 1990s. This article examines ...

West Nile virus activity in Latin America and the Caribbean.

OBJECTIVES West Nile virus (Flavivirus: Flaviviridae; WNV) has spread rapidly throughout the Caribbean Basin since its initial detection there in 2001. This report summarizes our current knowledge of WNV transmission in tropical America. METHODS We reviewed the published literature and consulted with key public health officials to obtain unpublished data. RESULTS West Nile virus infections ...

Zika virus outbreak: reproductive health and rights in Latin America.

In mid-January, 2016, health ministers from diff erent Latin American countries made public recommendations to women and couples to postpone pregnancy for 6 months to 2 years in the face of the Zika virus outbreak. These recommendations seemed out of place in view of the fact that 56% of pregnancies in the region are unintended. Poor quality of sex education, poor access to contraception, high ...

Race in Latin America

category to understand human biological diversity. Humans vary to some extent in their DNA and their outward physical appearance or phenotype, but this diversity cannot be organized into “racial groups” or “races,” even if some genetic and phenotypical variation seems to correlate very broadly with continental geography. Humans are too similar genetically and intracontinental genetic variation ...