There are undeniable historic and contemporary hardships faced by Indigenous Peoples regarding access to medical treatments, research opportunities, clinical trial participation, and careers. The goal of the PNOC/CBTN DEI working group is to bring such inequities to our pediatric neuro-oncology community and beyond and start to develop and collaborate towards solutions.
The breeding of captive wild species can play a crucial role in their preservation. One major barrier to successful captive breeding is the difficulty of replicating the natural environment. In this study the authors provide suggestions and recommendations to facilitate future breeding efforts for captive jaguars.
The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed annually on the day the police in Sharpeville, South Africa, opened fire and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration against apartheid "pass laws" in 1960. The UN General assembly created this day to signify the struggle to end the policy of apartheid in South Africa and call on the the international community to end all forms of racial discrimination.
This Article supports SDG 3 by providing the first systematic review on uptake of testing and treatment and turnaround times to treatment initiation with point-of-care HCV testing versus standard laboratory testing, finding improvements on both fronts; this is reflected in new WHO recommendations on adoption of point-of-care HCV testing as an alternative to laboratory-based tests.
This article aligns with the SDG goal 3 of Good health and wellbeing and SDG 10 Reduced inequalities by highlighting opportunities to leverage real data to better understand the outcomes of direct-acting antiviral treatment in smaller, discrete subgroups of HCV-infected patients that cannot be comprehensively evaluated in clinical trials.
This article aligns with the SDG goal 3 of Good health by showing that hepatitis E superinfection accelerate disease progression and increase long-term mortality in patients with hepatitis B liver cirrhosis
Explores the problems faced by persons with disabilities while using public transport in Lahore, Pakistan, and how these problems influence their choice of mode of transport. Makes recommendations for transport policies and future research.
This chapter advances Goals 4, 10, and 3 by providing an overview of human rights education in formal and non-formal educational spaces and in professional settings. It includes current debates in the field around the pedagogy and practice of teaching human rights.
This chapter advances Goals 4 and 19 by describing some of the ways in which Education International approaches some of key issues of policy and practice, both long-standing, such as social equality and human rights, and those that are emerging, such as uses of new technologies, privatization, decolonization of education and climate change.
According to the authors, based on the studies reviewed in the paper, the beneficial relationship between plant-based diets and environmental sustainability is in accordance with the conclusions of the Eat-Lancet Report. The studies demonstrate that high consumption of animal-based foods was associated with a greater impact on the environment, whereas high consumption of plant-based foods was associated with a low impact. Apart from water and energy use, environmental parameters of different plant-based dietary patterns were consistent, despite varied components of environmental impact assessed.
