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…young adults. This trend is congruent with other indigenous communities in this and other regions of the world, and is attributed to many reasons, including rapid cultural change, loss of land, family disintegration, exposure to conflict and violence, and extreme poverty. Emberá communities recognize suicide as a major problem, but there is no organized community…

…And a shift in understanding -- that malaria exposure may result not just in infant mortality and low birth weight but affects also long-term neurodevelopment “represents a change in paradigm that will initiate a re-evaluation of public health policies designed to protect women and children from the deleterious consequences of PM.”Today’s approach to this problem…

…handwashing intervention, has little effect on actual hygiene practices. HappyTap aims to close the gap between knowing and doing. To do so, HappyTap designs and markets behaviour change products that improve hygiene practices of some of the world's poorest consumers. HappyTap uses commercial distribution to maximize user buy-in and ongoing use, and to enable a…

…specialists who traditionally provide massages to mothers and newborns in the first few weeks after birth. This already established traditional network will be leveraged as 'agents of change' to train and support mothers and families in adopting the proposed package of ECD interventions. The intervention aims to improve infants’ development outcomes, and to lay a…