Management of Indigenous Communities Health Issues at the Villano Project in the Ecuadorian Amazon Region

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Vacas ◽  
Mario Gonzalez ◽  
Vinicio Sanabria ◽  
Angelo Madera
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Amazon Region ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Ecuadorian Amazon

MODEC2017, International Workshop on the Natural Products and Agro-Industrial Processes in Ecuadorian Amazon region

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amaury Pérez Martínez ◽  
Oscar Miguel Rivera-Borroto ◽  
Gerardo M. Casañola-Martín ◽  
Karel Dieguez Santana
Keyword(s):  
Natural Products ◽  
International Workshop ◽  
Amazon Region ◽  
Industrial Processes ◽  
Ecuadorian Amazon

scholarly journals Epidemiological aspects of retrovirus (HTLV) infection among Indian populations in the Amazon Region of Brazil

2003 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 901-914 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Ishak ◽  
Antonio Carlos Rosário Vallinoto ◽  
Vânia Nakauth Azevedo ◽  
Marluísa de Oliveira Guimarães Ishak
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Subtype ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Epidemiological Data ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Laboratory Diagnosis ◽  
Amazon Region ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
Migration Routes ◽  
Modes Of Transmission ◽  
Clear Cut

HTLV was initially described in association with a form of leukemia in Japan and a neurological disease in the Caribbean. It was soon shown that HTLV-II was endemic among Amerindians and particularly among Brazilian Indians. The Amazon Region of Brazil is presently the largest endemic area for this virus and has allowed several studies concerning virus biology, the search for overt disease, epidemiological data including detailed demographic data on infected individuals, clear-cut geographic distribution, definition of modes of transmission and maintenance within small, epidemiologically-closed groups, and advances in laboratory diagnosis of the infection. A new molecular subtype named HTLV-IIc was further described on the basis of genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis. This subtype is present in other areas of Brazil, indicating that the virus is additionally both a valuable marker for tracing past human migration routes in the Americas and a probable marker for social habits of the present human population. HIV, the other human retrovirus, is still not prevalent among indigenous communities in the Brazilian Amazon, but these groups are also easy targets for the virus.

scholarly journals Aguinda v. Texaco Inc.

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronica Davidov
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Oil Extraction ◽  
The State ◽  
Legal Process ◽  
Complex Relation ◽  
Ecuadorian Amazon ◽  
Legal Structures ◽  
A Site ◽  
Collective Representations

This article analyzes a series of litigations that began with the Aguinda v. Texaco Inc. case as a site of production of new legal subjectivities for indigenous communities in the region of the Ecuadorian Amazon polluted by oil extraction activities. They engage in the transnational and local legal structures, contribute to and generate legal and scientific knowledge and expertise, and articulate multiple legal subjectivities that position them not only as homogenous plaintiffs in a highly publicized lawsuit, but also as legal actors in complex relation to each other, and to the state. Through such engagements with this legal process, indigenous actors are recrafting their collective representations in ways that challenge the ‘ecoprimitive’ stereotypes of indigeneity, historically associated with the ‘paradox of primitivism.’

scholarly journals Effect of Mineral Supplementation on the Macromineral Concentration in Blood in Pre- and Postpartum Blackbelly Sheep

Animals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 1206
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Moyano Tapia ◽  
Simon Alexander Leib ◽  
Pablo Roberto Marini ◽  
Maria Laura Fischman
Keyword(s):  
Field Work ◽  
Amazon Region ◽  
Production Cycle ◽  
Mineral Supplement ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Mineral Supplementation ◽  
Ecuadorian Amazon ◽  
Free Grazing ◽  
Group 2 ◽  
Amazon Biodiversity

The objective of this study was to determine the effect of mineral supplementation on the serum concentration of calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium in pre- and postpartum Blackbelly sheep throughout three successive lambing periods under free grazing conditions in the Ecuadorian Amazon Region. The field work was carried out between January 2015 and February 2018 using 20 Blackbelly sheep belonging to the Centre for Research, Postgraduate Studies and Conservation of Amazon Biodiversity, Ecuador. The flock was randomly divided into two groups: Group 1 (G1) was fed with forage plus a supplementation (Pecutrin® Mineral supplement plus vitamins A, D3, and E. Bayer HealthCare) and Group 2 (G2) was fed only with forage without mineral supplementation. Three blood samples from the coccygeal vein were taken from each sheep 30 days before lambing, 30 days after, and 60 days after lambing. Concerning the average of calcium, significant differences were found at different times inside each group and also between them (p < 0.0001 in both cases). As for the phosphorus, significant differences were found between the means of the groups for all times from 30 days after the second lambing season (p < 0.05). It was observed that the groups differed significantly in terms on the average of magnesium (considering a significance level of 0.05) 30 days before the first lambing and at all times measured from the 30 days after the second lambing (p < 0.005). In this study, we showed that Blackbelly sheep raised under free grazing conditions in the Ecuadorian Amazon Region had very low serum calcium values, and supplementation was unable to improve them. Meanwhile, phosphorus and magnesium levels were below the required values, but after supplementation, they exceeded the minimum threshold. Mineral supplementation in the rearing of sheep in grazing systems is necessary during the entire production cycle, but it must be done taking into account the soil–plant–animal relationship specifically for the Amazonian Region systems.

scholarly journals Predicting hunter behavior of indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon: insights from a household production model

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrique de la Montaña ◽  
Rocío del Pilar Moreno-Sánchez ◽  
Jorge H. Maldonado ◽  
Daniel M. Griffith
Keyword(s):  
Household Production ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Production Model ◽  
Ecuadorian Amazon

scholarly journals MODEC03-2018, International Workshop on the Natural Products and Agro-Industrial Processes in Ecuadorian Amazon region

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amaury Pérez Martínez ◽  
Karel Dieguez Santana ◽  
Oscar Rivera-Borroto ◽  
Gerardo Casañola-Martín
Keyword(s):  
Natural Products ◽  
International Workshop ◽  
Amazon Region ◽  
Industrial Processes ◽  
Ecuadorian Amazon

scholarly journals Scabies and bacterial skin infections at a molecular level

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Katja Fischer ◽  
David J Kemp
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Skin Infections ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Molecular Approaches ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
Australian Community ◽  
Bacterial Skin Infections

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are nearly 20 times more likely to die from acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) than individuals from the wider Australian community. ARF and RHD as well as high rates of renal disease have been clearly linked to scabies infestations as the major driving force of streptococcal pyoderma in children of Indigenous communities, underlying 50 to 70% of all skin infections. In addition, patients are facing mite resistance against current anti-scabetic therapeutics. Community-based initiatives have been recently expanding and today form the major existing body of knowledge surrounding scabies. Critical biological questions, however, remain unanswered, due to the lack of biomedical research in the area. In the context of the current failure to overcome the social dimensions of Indigenous health issues, molecular approaches that have only now become possible may well lead to vaccines or other clinical interventions and hence to an improvement of the situation.

scholarly journals H1N1 in Retrospect: A Review of Risk Factors and Policy Recommendations

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Mousseau
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
H1n1 Pandemic ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Pandemic Planning ◽  
Pharmaceutical Interventions

The H1N1 pandemic of 2009 devastated Indigenous communities worldwide. In order to explain infection patterns and prevent repeating history in future pandemics, associations with infection were investigated. This revealed that the vulnerability of Indigenous communities to infection was associated with poor performance on measurements of social determinants of health. Several policy recommendations pertaining to non-pharmaceutical interventions, prioritization of scarce health care resources, and pandemic planning are made to improve this situation. The best approach would be to empower Indigenous communities to take control over and improve local conditions. Success of such strategies in the battle against other Indigenous health issues suggests that these interventions would be invaluable against emerging infectious disease.

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