By Alhelí González Cáceres.* The population of the wetlands area of Asunción has long been the subject of study in various research studies, both those related to the socio-environmental impacts of agribusiness, as described by Wari in Paraguay: los presos y a... More »
By Jorge Rolón Luna* According to the United Nations World Drug Report 2022, around 284 million people aged between 15 and 64 used drugs worldwide in 2020 (an increase of 26% compared to the previous decade). Youth drug use also grew, surpassing the previous g... More »
By Jorge Rolón Luna* The use of consciousness-altering substances should be a health issue. And this, it should be added, when such use is considered “problematic”. Drug use does not always have that character; in other words, it does not always affect a perso... More »
By Jorge Rolón Luna In 1875, the Mayor’s Office of San Francisco (USA) issued a ban on opium dens, marking, perhaps, the initiation of an offensive model against consciousness-altering substances that is still in force today. 147 years later, the same country ... More »
By María Asunción Collante Jara On March 20, 2020, our country entered a total quarantine after the first cases of COVID-19 were reported, and since then, the economic and human losses have been considerable. At the same time, the structural conditions of gend... More »
By Rodrigo Ibarrola In the comments on the daily reports of the Ministry of Health and Public Welfare (MOHPW) on the progress of COVID-19, there are often those who, based on the data, consider the vaccines are not working. If one takes a crude look at the dat... More »
By Rodrigo Ibarrola. Citizens continue to show their dissatisfaction with the government’s policies to combat the pandemic. Vaccines arrive in insufficient numbers, those that do arrive are not used as expected because there is no serious effort to get them to... More »
By María José Patiño Valiente. * Chronic non-communicable diseases (CNCDs) are one of the leading annual causes of global deaths. Statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO) show CNCD related deaths have increased by 28% worldwide. The Global Burden of... More »
By María José Patiño Valiente* Diet plays a fundamental role in the development of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Scientific evidence shows that a diet rich in saturated fats with low intake of fruits or vegetables influences population health and i... More »