25 de abril, día mundial de la lucha contra la malaria. Compartimos una selección de artículos sobre la malaria. Los artículos abarcan temas como las campañas de comunicación y el papel de los organismos internacionales.

TECNO-ITINTEC, Peru’s first interactive science museum, was not part of government policy. It was instead the idea of Peruvian scientists Heraud and Castro Mendívil, who framed the museum to appeal to the military government’s ideals of modernization and nationalization.

According to data from the World Health Organization, Chagas disease afflicts around 7 million people worldwide and causes 12,000 deaths every year. This special issue, published in 2009, addresses the discovery of Chagas disease and the ensuing research in Brazil and abroad.

Esta serie de vídeos “Jornadas de Investigaciones en Salud: historias post pandémicas en Iberoamérica”, disponibles en el canal de la UNED, reúne reflexiones en torno a la historia de la salud y la enfermedad, con distintos temas, conclusiones o nuevas líneas de avances, tanto historiográficas como vinculadas a otras disciplinas cuyo centro es la salud. La contraseña de acceso a los videos es Salud2024.

In this editorial, published in the British Medical Journal, members of the BMJ’s Council for Latin America, Deisy Ventura (University of São Paulo) and Miguel O’Ryan (University of Chile), address Latin America’s essential contributions to global health and lay out priorities and challenges for improving health and equity in the region.

Sixty years ago, the military overthrew the democratically elected president, João Goulart. For the next 21 years, five generals succeeded each other in a regime that persecuted, arrested, and killed opponents and critics with the motto “Brazil: love it or leave it.”