Successes and setbacks in the fight against Aids

The medical anthropologist Richard Parker, professor at Columbia University, examines the social and political aspects of HIV/AIDS in Latin America.

Del turismo escolar y sanitario infantil al turismo social

Perla Bruno analiza momentos distintos de las colonias de vacaciones para niños en Buenos Aires: de la lucha antituberculosa al fomento del turismo social a fines de 1940.

New issue of HCS-Manguinhos is available online

This new issue features 19 articles about different aspects of health and science.

Brazil confirms link between zika virus and microcephaly in babies

A total of 739 suspected cases of newborn babies with microcephaly have already been identified throughout Brazil so far this year, compared to 147 diagnosed cases in 2014.

Medicine confronts violence

The digital exhibition “Confronting violence: improving women’s life” shows the struggle of US activists to include domestic violence within the context of health issues.

Convocatoria para el ingreso a la Carrera del Investigador Científico del CONICET

Hasta el 17 de diciembre se encuentra abierta la convocatoria de ingreso a la Carrera del Investigador Científico del CONICET.

Digitised mental health care archives

The Wellcome Trust webstise holds online material on mental health, including information about UK institutions, patient diaries, artworks and photographs.

El ácido fólico y el embarazo: un éxito de la medicina preventiva

El ensayo analiza los estudios científicos sobre una de las malformaciones genéticas más frecuentes y su relación con la nutrición.

Cattle trial cuts human sleeping sickness

Cattle were given parasite-killing drug and area was sprayed with insecticide. This cut cases of human sleeping sickness by 90 per cent in Uganda

Marx & Engels papers completely available online

The papers can be consulted from anywhere and by anyone who logs into the catalogue website of the International Institute of Social History.