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Melioidosis in Trinidad and Tobago

Author affiliations: University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada (C. Hogan); University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (A. Wilmer, M. Badawi, L. Hoang, M. Chapman, N. Press, M. Romney, M. Murray); King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (M. Badawi); British Columbia Centre for Disease Control Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory, Vancouv...

Leading Educational improvement in Trinidad and Tobago

This Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) is currently undergoing major educational reforms and improvement at all levels of the system. Schools have been given responsibility for implementing changes through the establishment of school-based management. is your abstract School leaders now have the important role of initiating and implementing school improvement, which necessitate new forms of leadership....

Poverty, Employment and HIV/AIDS in Trinidad and Tobago

This paper examines the strength and direction of the association between poverty and HIV/AIDS in Trinidad and Tobago. A Granger Causality test and a Vector Auto-Regression model were used to ascertain whether the traditionally assumed bicausal relationship between poverty and HIV/AIDS holds for Trinidad and Tobago. The test results suggest a two-way link between female unemployment and the inc...

Use of medicinal plants for diabetes in Trinidad and Tobago.

Use of herbal remedies from medicinal plants (bush medicines) was studied in 622 people with diabetes mellitus attending 17 government health centers on the island of Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago. Bush medicines were used by 42% of patients surveyed and were used for diabetes by 24%. Bush medicine use was more frequent in Afro-Trinidadians and in those of mixed ethnicity than in Indo-Trinidadi...