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Tag: COVID-19

Role playing Brazilian Heroes in impoverished communities

Posted on July 28, 2021

This part of the project focuses on the gamified intervention that aimed at promoting critical thinking and filtering of information in the context of the pandemic and fake news surrounding it in Brazil.


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COVID-19 and Indigenous communities in Colombia

Posted on June 14, 2021

This project aimed to estimate the diagnosis and seroprevalence of Covid-19 and understanding how local cultural traditions and beliefs influence the infection in the indigenous communities in Choco…


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