However, private facilities are fee-based, which creates a barrier for low-income patients; this is an especially significant problem in Guatemala, which has the highest income inequalities and poverty rates in Latin America. This article describes a project on the transition from cobalt to a ...
Filter performance includes flow rate or a consideration of the amount of water that the filter can produce for a household. A recent model includes evaluation of water level over time, instantaneous volumetric flow rate of filtrate, and cumulative volume of water produced as influenced by vessel ...
Participants also mentioned that the CBIO+ Approach can be difficult to implement, primarily due to the presence of severe poverty and economic instability as well as community discord, usually related to religious or social conflicts. Moreover, the respondents mentioned that the approach takes a ...
According to Guatemala's 2014 census, the country has a poverty rate of 59.3 %, with nearly one in four individuals living in extreme poverty (Guatemala Instituto Nacional de Estadística, 2015). The regional poverty rates varied between 33.3 % and 66.3 % within the municipalities of our instal...
Young people in Honduras and Guatemala face a number of challenges, particularly if they are among the 59–66%2of the population that lives in poverty. Education, unfortunately, offers little hope for poor youth to escape poverty because there is limited coverage at the secondary level, low qua...