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Colombian anti-drugs policemen guard stacks of marijuana seized from the rural area of El Jagual at a military police base in Popayan October, 23, 2011.

Changing Drug Use in Colombia and Peru

by Alfonso Silva-Santisteban

People who use drugs should use them in the safest and most informed way

Poverty
Cristian Molina, 26, takes his tuberculosis medication at his house in the shantytown of Lujan in Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 26, 2019. Molina is prescribed to take 11 tablets per day, seven in the morning and four in the afternoon, which often give him a stomachache.

The Fight Against Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

by Caroline Kantis

A photo series depicting people living with TB

Dr. Patty García stands at a podium speaking. Dr. Garcia is professor and Dean of the School of Public Health at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru. She is the former Minister of Health of Peru
Governance

When Inequity, Political Instability, and Culture Meet COVID

An interview with Dr. Patricia Garcia, former health minister of Peru and global health leader

A funeral worker wears a face mask with an illustration of Jesus, outside Los Ceibos hospital amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on April 15, 2020. The photo shows the worker in protective head covering and mask. on his mask is an image of Jesus with a rainbow colors on his robe. REUTERS/Santiago Arcos
Urbanization

Religion and COVID-19—Keeping Faith in the Battle Against Coronavirus

by Samantha Kiernan, Lily Cohen

Faith leaders and their organizations can and should serve as crucial allies in the fight against COVID-19—and many are

Monica Samudio, 46, whose husband Jorge Garcia, 51, died from coronavirus looks out of her window in Mexico City on April 29, 2020. Samudio faced discrimination when she contracted the disease. Picture shows the woman looking out her window and partially reflected in the glass. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido
Governance

Estimating the Latin Wave of Coronavirus

by Rafael Lozano

Projections show potential impact of COVID-19 on Latin America—Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Ecuador among the hardest hit

Soldiers guard the Ecuadoran side of a border with Colombia in Tufino, Ecuador on March 15, 2020, after country leaders announced the closure of its borders to all foreign travelers due to COVID-19. The photo shows a simple border crossing through a small town with a big sign reading "Ecuador" above the street. The crossing is closed with metal barricades, and a soldier stands out front. REUTERS/Daniel Tapia
Trade

Coronavirus in Latin America

by Carlos Javier Regazzoni

How will the region cope with COVID-19 pressure on health care systems, weak economies, and unstable politics

Picture shows weathered, rain-beaten buildings in the small Amazon Jungle community of Puerto Almendras, Peru
Urbanization

Unseen Diversity, From Jungle Hut to City Flat

by Jason Socrates Bardi

Study explores how diversity of chemicals and microbes changes along an “urbanization gradient” across Amazon rainforest