The Participation of Children and Adolescents in the Protection System: The Case of the Spanish Legislation

Children’s right to participation is enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), specifically in Article 12; however, the participation of children in the protection system continues to be a challenge. There is a need for a paradigm shift, in which children and adolescents (CA) are considered as active subjects of rights in all areas of their lives, and that means allowing them to participate in decisions that concern them. The study analysed 20 Spanish laws, both national and autonomous, that regulate child protection and the rights of CA in the protection system. It focuses on examining the participation of children in the protection system, divided into its three dimensions: the right to be informed, the right to be heard and the right to be involved. There is complexity in the different regulations. All of them are consistent with the CRC and provide for participation, but not all to the same extent. There is a lack of harmonisation between the legislation of autonomous communities, leading to practical difficulties for the professionals who have to implement the legislation on a daily basis.This research was funded by the coordinated research project I+D+i RTI2018-099305-B-C21 Un modelo de acción socioeducativa para la reunificación familiar en el sistema de protección a la infancia y la adolescencia desde el enfoque de la parentalidad positiva (A model of socio-educational action for family reunification in the child and adolescent protection system based on a positive parenting approach), granted by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spai

Strategies to reengage patients lost to follow up in HIV care in high income countries, a scoping review

Background: Despite remarkable achievements in antiretroviral therapy (ART), losses to follow-up (LTFU) might prevent the long-term success of HIV treatment and might delay the achievement of the 90-90-90 objectives. This scoping review is aimed at the description and analysis of the strategies used in high-income countries to reengage LTFU in HIV care, their implementation and impact. Methods: A scoping review was done following Arksey & O'Malley's methodological framework and recommendations from Joanna Briggs Institute. Peer reviewed articles were searched for in Pubmed, Scopus and Web of Science; and grey literature was searched for in Google and other sources of information. Documents were charted according to the information presented on LTFU, the reengagement procedures used in HIV units in high-income countries, published during the last 15 years. In addition, bibliographies of chosen articles were reviewed for additional articles. Results: Twenty-eight documents were finally included, over 80% of them published in the United States later than 2015. Database searches, phone calls and/or mail contacts were the most common strategies used to locate and track LTFU, while motivational interviews and strengths-based techniques were used most often during reengagement visits. Outcomes like tracing activities efficacy, rates of reengagement and viral load reduction were reported as outcome measures. Conclusions: This review shows a recent and growing trend in developing and implementing patient reengagement strategies in HIV care. However, most of these strategies have been implemented in the United States and little information is available for other high-income countries. The procedures used to trace and contact LTFU are similar across reviewed studies, but their impact and sustainability are widely different depending on the country studied

Un frutero llamado Lévi-Strauss: intercomprensión y aprendizaje simultáneo de lengua románicas

E_182_El frutero_Lévi-StraussElaboración de una lección de intercomprensión para desarrollar la comprensión lectora desde cualquiera de las otras lenguas románicas: portugués, gallego, catalán, occitano aranés y lenguadociano, francés, italiano y rumano. Texto con ayudas lingüísticas necesarias para las otras lenguas, cuadro mártir correspondiente y lección de intercomprensión final.PMI

Un frutero llamado Lévi-Strauss: intercomprensión y aprendizaje simultáneo de lengua románicas

E_182_El frutero_Lévi-StraussElaboración de una lección de intercomprensión para desarrollar la comprensión lectora desde cualquiera de las otras lenguas románicas: portugués, gallego, catalán, occitano aranés y lenguadociano, francés, italiano y rumano. Texto con ayudas lingüísticas necesarias para las otras lenguas, cuadro mártir correspondiente y lección de intercomprensión final.PMI

Un frutero llamado Lévi-Strauss: intercomprensión y aprendizaje simultáneo de lengua románicas

E_182_El frutero_Lévi-StraussElaboración de una lección de intercomprensión para desarrollar la comprensión lectora desde cualquiera de las otras lenguas románicas: portugués, gallego, catalán, occitano aranés y lenguadociano, francés, italiano y rumano. Texto con ayudas lingüísticas necesarias para las otras lenguas, cuadro mártir correspondiente y lección de intercomprensión final.PMI

Discovering HIV related information by means of association rules and machine learning

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is still one of the main health problems worldwide. It is therefore essential to keep making progress in improving the prognosis and quality of life of affected patients. One way to advance along this pathway is to uncover connections between other disorders associated with HIV/AIDS-so that they can be anticipated and possibly mitigated. We propose to achieve this by using Association Rules (ARs). They allow us to represent the dependencies between a number of diseases and other specific diseases. However, classical techniques systematically generate every AR meeting some minimal conditions on data frequency, hence generating a vast amount of uninteresting ARs, which need to be filtered out. The lack of manually annotated ARs has favored unsupervised filtering, even though they produce limited results. In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised system, able to identify relevant ARs among HIV-related diseases with a minimal amount of annotated training data. Our system has been able to extract a good number of relationships between HIV-related diseases that have been previously detected in the literature but are scattered and are often little known. Furthermore, a number of plausible new relationships have shown up which deserve further investigation by qualified medical experts