This article aims to offer a genealogical positioning of the problems that have arisen around the COVID-19 pandemic, it is examined through four moments: a) the emergence of the virus and the disease, b) the spread of the virus and declaration of the pandemic, c) control of the disease and contagion, and d) discovery of the vaccine and the post-pandemic. With this analysis we can affirm that bioethics is capable of developing a critical reflection on the need to limit the aims of predation as an objective: commercial health, relationship between human beings, environment and animal species in a natural habitat, human rights, racial discrimination, infodemic, access to resources and medical attention, "new normalities in the post-pandemic". Thus, bioethics must be projected towards a critical global and social bioethics based on systematic studies in health and life sciences that look at ...

Objetivo: Analizar los aspectos normativos y éticos relacionados a la inclusión de las minorías étnicas en los ensayos clínicos en Latinoamérica y el Caribe. Métodos: Se presentan resultados del análisis ético y normativo realizado por el grupo de investigadores en bioética, del Ethic Policy Forum; foro de análisis, discusión y formulación de propuestas en políticas y normativas relacionadas con aspectos de ética en investigación en los países de Latinoamérica y el Caribe, constituido por el Instituto de Evaluación de Tecnologías en Salud e Investigación del Seguro Social de Salud del Perú, la Universidad Católica Santa María de Arequipa, Perú y la Red Internacional de Salud Colectiva y salud Intercultural de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. Resultados: Se evidencia que las minorías étnicas no están adecuadamente representadas en los ensayos clÃ...

Objetive: To analyze the normative and ethical aspects related to the inclusion of ethnic minorities in clinical trials in Latin America and the Caribbean. Methods: The results of the ethical and normative analysis carried out by the group of researchers in bioethics of the Ethic Policy Forum are presented; forum for analysis, discussion and formulation of proposals in policies and regulations related to aspects of ethics in research in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, constituted by the Institute for the Evaluation of Technologies in Health and Research of the Social Security of Health of Peru, the Universidad Católica Santa María de Arequipa, Peru and the International Network of Collective Health and Intercultural Health of the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico. Results: It is evident that ethnic minorities are not adequately represented in clinical trial...

Introduction: The current study aimed to quantitatively synthesize available evidence regarding the seroprevalence of human toxocariasis in Latin America and the Caribbean. Methods: A systematic research involving six electronic databases was conducted using a research strategy that combined MeSH terms with free terms. Article selection and information extraction were performed using a double and independent approach. The Newcastle-Ottawa tool was used to assess the risk of bias in the included articles. The meta-analysis used the random-effects approach, with subgroup analysis and sensitivity analysis for risk of bias also being performed. Results: We included 101 articles with a total of 31,123 participants. The studies were conducted between 1990 and 2022, with Brazil accounting for the largest number of studies (n = 37). The overall seroprevalence of human toxocariasis was 31.0% (95%...