REPORTS
Adelante Initiative workload data report – 2020
The present study was conducted at the sugarcane mill Ingenio San Antonio (ISA) in Chinandega, Nicaragua. Data collection occurred during the 2018-19 and 2019-20 sugarcane harvests (November–April). Ten manual jobs performed by workers [...]
Physiological drivers of CKDnt in heavy laborers
We are pleased to announce the publication of our manuscript in the Special Issue "Hydration and Nutrition Considerations for Sports and Physical Activity" of Nutrients - journal of human nutrition published monthly online [...]
A measure of the return on ingenio san antonio’s investment in the adelante initiative
An initial estimate of costs and benefits of a water, rest, and shade intervention La Isla Network has been working in collaboration with Ingenio San Antonio (ISA) in Nicaragua, on the implementation [...]
The economic impact of CKDnt on households
Survey findings from a pilot study of a workers’ association, Asochivida , and of the communities of la Isla, Manhattan, and Candelaria, Nicaragua Chronic kidney disease of non-traditional origin (CKDnt) is an [...]
Preventing kidney injury among sugarcane workers
We are pleased to announce the publication of our Manuscript “Preventing kidney injury among sugarcane workers: promising evidence from enhanced workplace interventions” in BMJ Occupational and Environmental Medicine. This publication contains the results [...]
NEWSLETTERS & PRESS RELEASES
Covid-19 Response
Version en Español We hope this message finds you and your families well. For those on the front lines treating COVID-19 or providing other essential services, we thank you. For those who [...]
Press Release – October 16 2019
PRESS RELEASE OCTOBER 16 2019 Heat Stress among workers identified as a principal driver of fatal kidney disease Occupational & Environmental Medicine La Isla Network (LIN) would like to [...]
Turning Point
Turning Point A MESSAGE FROM THE CEO. The summer of 2018 is a turning point in addressing CKDnT and the conditions that accelerate it. Photo Credit: Bonsucro / Joe Woodruff [...]
Crisis in Nicaragua
LIN is deeply concerned with the ongoing social crisis that has resulted in many deaths and injuries in Nicaragua over the last eight weeks. LIN’s roots are in Nicaragua, where [...]
La Isla Returns to Nicaragua to Strengthen Concepts for Global Focus
Note: The first hyperlink requires a free account to Medscape news, a leading purveyor of medical news. This Newsletter is also longer than usual, but the content is essential for understanding LIN’s strategy and rationale [...]
Adelante Initiative launched in Nicaragua
On 3 August, at mill San Antonio in Nicaragua, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between four organisations, La Isla Network, San Antonio mill, the National Committee of Sugarcane Producers of Nicaragua and Bonsucro. The MOU agrees to set up a new [...]
Kidney Failure Deaths Move Filmmaker to Raise Research Funds
Five men, all sugarcane workers and all sick with chronic kidney disease, were lying in hammocks outside the gates of the company in Chichigalpa, Nicaragua, that once employed them. Their friends and families were by [...]
Promising Results of First Evaluated Occupational Health Intervention for CKDnT—Though Challenges Remain
PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release For more information contact: Ilana Weiss, Senior Director of Public Health and Policy La Isla Network ilana@laislanetwork.org From La Isla Network, July 12, 2017 Results from Year 1 of the Worker [...]
Scope, Impact and Results of the WE Program’s Water Rest and Shade Intervention Study
February 1st, 2017 (Updated February 10th, 2017 to include language that makes it emphatic that we believe A. Water, Rest and Shade (WRS) is a basic human right B. Regardless of CKDnT WRS programs should be [...]
Striking Similarities. Key Differences?
CKDnT Field Investigation Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia Tom Laffay 2017 January Summary: On January 10 and 11, 2017 I visited communities in the Cauca Valley of Colombia, based out of the department capital city [...]
