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| | | Projects |  | Mexico: Research and capacity building on tuberculosis in Guerrero, 1987-present | | Mexico: Measles, 1989-1990 | | Mexico: Safe Childbirth - 1995-96 | | Mexico: Working Children of Acapulco 1987-1993 | | Mexico: Intestinal Parasites, 1990 | | Mexico: Indigenous newborns surviving in cultural safety, 2007-2010 | | Mexico: Dyspareunia and episiotomies - a case-control study in an Acapulco hospital, 2006 | | Mexico: Micro Regional Planning, 1992-1995 | | Mexico: Dengue in Acapulco - Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices, 2004 | | Mexico: Community Dermatology, 1990-95 | | Mexico: Occupational Risk of Infection with HIV, 1989 | | Mexico: Malaria and Dengue, 1988-present | | Mexico: Active tuberculosis surveillance in rural communities, 1987-1990 | | Mexico: Acute respiratory infections in under-fives, 1986 | | Mexico: Scorpion Sting, 1987 | | Mexico: Capillaria Hepatica in Rats and Acapulcan Children, 1993 | | Mexico: Chagas Disease 1986 | | Mexico: Student Smoking, 1991 | | Mexico: Diarrhea in Children under Three Years Old,1989 | | Mexico: Domestic violence against pregnant women in Ometepec, Guerrero, 2001 | | Themes | | Immunization | | Youth involvement in planning | | Capacity building | | Measles | | Gender | | Nutrition | | Sexual violence | | Eco-system health | | Appropriate technology | | Social indicator monitoring | | Child rights | | Water and sanitation | | Emergencies | | Dengue | | Humanitarian aid | | Aboriginal health | | Methods | | Isolated and marginalized groups | |
Mexico
The Centro de Investigación de Enfermedades Tropicales (CIET) at the Autonomous University of Guerrero in Acapulco, Guerrero, was founded in 1985 and has trained over 600 planners and researchers from 58 countries, and many more Mexican health workers and officials, through an array of courses. Training usually involves extensive field work in urban and rural communities, from the sprawling barrios of Acapulco to remote indigenous villages in the mountains.
Over the years, CIET has worked in the Costa Chica region of Guerrero in close partnership with indigenous people who are among the most disadvantaged rural populations in Mexico. We have helped these communities carry out
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Amuzgo women gather to talk with community health promoters
in Xochistlahuaca, Mexico, where CIET has been working with
Aboriginal rural populations since 1986 |
action-oriented research and planning on critical health issues such as child diarrhoea, parasites, scorpion sting and safe motherhood.
In Xochistlahuaca, a remote municipality with majority Amuzgo population we have trained and supported indigenous health promoters who have become a valuable and respected community health resource for the region. We are currently working with them to improve maternal and perinatal health without destroying traditional childbirth-related roles and culture.
We have conducted numerous studies in Guerrero throughout the years, including:
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