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"Life Is Taking Me Where I Need to Go": Biographical Disruption and New Arrangements in the Lives of Female Family Carers of Children with Congenital Zika Syndrome in Pernambuco, Brazil.
Viruses - 8 Dec 2020
de Melo Ana Paula Lopes, Lyra Tereza, de Araújo Thália Velho Barreto, de Albuquerque Maria do Socorro Veloso, Valongueiro Sandra, Kuper Hannah, Penn-Kekana Loveday
Abstract excerpt
The congenital Zika syndrome (CZS) epidemic in Brazil turned the spotlight on many other factors beyond illness, such as poverty, gender, and inequalities in health care. Women were the emblematic subjects in this study, not only because Zika virus is a vertical transmission disease, but also because women-in Brazil and elsewhere-typically represent the primary carers of children. This is a qualitative analytic...
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