Supporting Colansa, the Community of Practice for healthy food systems, CLAS promoted evidence-based advocacy and policy change. In nine months over 2021-22, we set out to (1) position healthy and sustainable food systems ...

The InterAmerican Heart Foundation (IAHF) presents here an updated report on the status of obesity and food environment policies and indicators. The present paper is based on a project originally developed in 2017, aimed ...

The InterAmerican Heart Foundation (IAHF) together with its initiative, the coalition named CLAS (Healthy Latin America Coalition in Spanish) carried out a workshop that took place in Panama, December 2nd to 5th, 2019. The ...

The main aim of the project was to develop a low-cost test for Zika to be deployed first in Ecuador, Brazil, and Colombia. The test was expected to detect the virus in human and mosquito samples and, in turn, to help design ...

This project aims to establish and sustain a community of practice for healthy food systems in Latin America and the Caribbean to encourage collaborative learning and quality information exchange among different individuals, ...

We describe the genomic and phenotypic characteristics of a novel member of Streptococcus with multidrug resistance (MDR) isolated from hospital samples. Strains SP218 and SP219 were identified as a novel Streptococcus, ...

In these articles on the subject of the COVID-19 crisis, the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC, South Africa) magazine explores seven themes, including analysis of the impact on psychological health and wellbeing, the ...