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Anti-Malarial Strategies Among Vulnerable Populations: exploring bed net underutilization among internally displaced persons and novel adjunctive therapies for cerebral malaria
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Background: Despite declining incidence globally, malaria morbidity and mortality remain elevated among internally displaced persons (IDPs) and children under five, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria prevention and treatment efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are...
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Clinical impact of submicroscopic malaria on delivery outcomes and the role of VAR2CSA antibodies in pregnant women from Colombia
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Malaria caused by the genus Plasmodium (P.) is one of the oldest and most important parasitic infections globally. Pregnant women are at an increased risk for malaria, where the disease poses a significant risk to both maternal and child health. Better diagnosis of malaria can have an immediate...
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Investigation of antibody-mediated immune mechanisms during submicroscopic infections of pregnancy-associated malaria in pregnant women from Colombia
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Malaria has been a threat to humans for centuries and continues to be a global health problem. Repeated exposure to malaria in childhood can result in protective immunity that reduces parasite invasion of red blood cells and the sequestration of infected red blood cells (iRBC) in the tissues....
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Investigation of the immunological cross-reactivity between Plasmodium vivax Duffy Binding Protein and Plasmodium falciparum VAR2CSA for vaccine development
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Worldwide, an estimated 30 million pregnancies are at risk of malaria infection each year. In pregnancy, Plasmodium falciparum parasites express a protein called VAR2CSA that mediates adherence of infected red blood cells (iRBCs) to chondroitin sulfate A (CSA) in the placenta. VAR2CSA antibodies...
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Population Displacement and Health: Examples of Internally Displaced Persons in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Syrian Refugees in Edmonton, Canada
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Background: Population displacement caused by complex humanitarian emergencies (CHE) has major health consequences, affecting 65 million people worldwide. This multiple methods thesis explores the impact of population displacement in two separate studies: (1) malaria among internally displaced...
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Social Determinants of Alcohol, Drug and Gambling Problems Among Urban Aboriginal Adults in Canada
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Objective: Little is known about the determinants of addictive disorders within the rapidly growing urban Aboriginal population in Canada. The objectives of this dissertation were to examine whether racial discrimination, Aboriginal enculturation, and Canadian acculturation were associated with...
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Systems of Inequity: Representations of Immigrants, Refugees, and Newcomers in Canada's National Housing Strategy
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Housing insecurity and homelessness in Canada have significant implications in the lived experiences of people. It is estimated that on any given night in Canada, approximately 35,000 people experience homelessness; further, estimates of 235,000 people experience homelessness in a given year...