New and Notable Caddisfly (Trichoptera) Distribution Records from the Dominican Republic and Honduras

BackgroundGlobally, cisgender women (CGW) represent 53% of people with HIV and 45% of new acquisitions (2022). Female sex workers (FSW) are 30 times more likely to acquire HIV (vs women overall); in the US 54% of new diagnoses in CGW are Black women. HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) coverage in US CGW remains low at 15%. Long-acting injectable (LAI) PrEP may help address inequities and expand use, as 2013-22 CDC data shows 7% of US people prescribed oral PrEP were female compared to 12.5% for injectable PrEP. Presented here is a mixed methods study assessing awareness and preferences for PrEP in CGW.MethodsCross-sectional surveys were conducted among CGW in Washington, DC and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (DR) from 11/’22-07/’23. DC CGW were recruited in reproductive health clinics; DR CGW were FSW recruited by peer navigators. CGW were ≥ 18 years, receiving care at the participating clinic and not living with HIV.ResultsIn DC (n=302), 86.4% identified as Black; in the DR (n=300), all identified as mixed race and Latina ethnicity. 71.2% (DC) and 94.3% (DR) never heard of oral PrEP; 91.1% (DC) and 98.3% (DR) never heard of LAI PrEP. 3% (DC) and 1% (DR) had ever used PrEP. Mean number of sex partners (past 6 months, DC) was 2.1, with 6.5% always using a condom [Table 1]. In the DR, always condom use was > 80% for sex with clients, < 42% with steady partners. An interest in using some form of PrEP was 4.8% in DC vs 80.3% in the DR [Figure 1]. Preference for LAI PrEP was 73.2% (DC) and 71% (DR) among all participants [Figure 2]. CGW thought it easier to get to a clinic every 2 months than to take a daily pill (DC, 64.9%; DR, 60.0%;) [Table 2], and would worry more about people discovering PrEP pills than being seen at a PrEP clinic for injections (DC, 59.9%; DR, 55.7%). PrEP service location preferences were family planning or primary care clinics (DC), and pharmacies or sexual health clinics (DR). Self-assessment of potential HIV acquisition was majority not likely/impossible (DC, 88%; DR, 53%); most DC CGW never used PrEP because they had not heard of it.ConclusionGaps in HIV knowledge, PrEP awareness and uptake exist for CGW. PrEP decision making is multifactorial and varies by population. CGW should be informed of their options and educated about potential reasons for PrEP use in a setting accessible and comfortable to them.DisclosuresAimee A. Metzner, PharmD, AAHIVP, GSK: Stocks/Bonds (Public Company)|ViiV Healthcare: Employee Alan Oglesby, MPH, GSK: Stocks/Bonds (Public Company)|ViiV Healthcare: Employee Allison O’Rourke, MPH, ViiV Healthcare: Grant/Research Support Wendy W. Davis, EdM, ViiV Healthcare: Grant/Research Support Rachel Scott, MD,MPH,FACOG, DHHS Perinatal Guidelines: Board Member|UW STD Prevention Training Center (UW STD PTC): Honoraria|ViiV Healthcare: Advisor/Consultant|ViiV Healthcare: Grant/Research Support|Vindico CME: Honoraria Tamara Taggart, PhD, MPH, HealthHIV: Honoraria Deanna Kerrigan, PhD, MPH, ViiV Healthcare: Grant/Research Support

Quality of care in institutional deliveries: the paradox of the Dominican Republic: a commentary on management

The Dominican Republic has enjoyed one of the strongest growth rates in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) over the past 20 years. It also experiences high growth with limited poverty reduction. The available evidence strongly supports the role of three distinguishing characteristics of the Dominican economy in explaining why prosperity has not been shared more broadly in a country that does not seem to have a growth problem. With this objective in mind, this book assembles a collection of empirical analyses that explore three complementary hypotheses that could help decipher the puzzle of growth with limited shared prosperity in the Dominican Republic. The analysis of three complementary hypotheses tested in this book yields interesting findings that reveal the complexity of the phenomenon of growth with limited poverty reduction in the Dominican Republic. This book is arranged as follows: (1) Chapter 1 addresses the adequacy of the methodology to measure price variation, focusing on whether the low responsiveness of the poverty rate to the strong, robust level of economic growth recorded by the Dominican Republic during the past decade may be partly explained by a price index that does not reflect differences in consumption patterns across income groups: (2) Chapter 2 examines the role of factor endowments, technology, and capital mobility in job creation, and investigates why in the face of outstanding growth performance, has the Dominican Republic not been able to generate enough formal jobs to absorb its abundant labor force; (3) Chapter 3 considers whether labor market outcomes in the Dominican Republic suffer from capital-biased technical change, providing additional insights into the questions addressed in the previous chapter; (4) Chapter 4 focuses on the wage effects of Haitian migration in the Dominican Republic, delving into the complex, sensitive debate on whether labor market outcomes in the Dominican Republic are affected by migrants from neighboring Haiti; and (5) Chapter 5 considers the labor market implications of immigration and emigration in the Dominican Republic, going one step further in this debate.

Assessment of Radiation Therapy Resources in the Dominican Republic

Late Quaternary fossils representing a locally extinct population of the Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer) are reported from two underwater caves in the Dominican Republic. A large fossil sample of C. rhombifer, from Oleg's Bat Cave near Bavaro in the southeastern Dominican Republic, consists of four nearly complete skulls, numerous isolated cranial elements and mandibles, and more than 100 postcranial bones representing most of the skeleton. These fossils were collected from a completely submerged portion of the cave at a depth of 11 m and about 100 m from the nearest entrance. A skull, mandibles, and two vertebrae of a Cuban crocodile were also found in a second cave called Ni-Rahu, northeast of Santo Domingo.We identify the fossil crocodile skulls from the Dominican Republic as Crocodylus rhombifer because they share the following characters with modern skulls of C. rhombifer from Cuba (as well as fossil skulls from Cuba, the Bahamas, and Cayman Islands): short, broad, and deep rostrum; large orbits; convex nasals along the midline (midrostral boss); prominent swelling on the lacrimals anterior and medial to the orbits; low but obvious ridges extending anteriorly from the lacrimals to the nasals and posteriorly from the lacrimals to the prefrontals and frontals, outlining a distinct diamond- or rhomboid-shaped structure; strongly concave interorbital region and cranial roof; high, narrow ridges on the internal margins of the orbits, extending from the prefrontals to the frontals and posteriorly to the postorbitals; prominent ridges along the lateral margins of the cranial roof on the postorbitals and squamosals, terminating as noticeable protuberances on the posterolateral corners of the squamosals; premaxillary/maxillary suture on the palate essentially horizontal or transverse to the long axis of the skull at the level of the first maxillary tooth; 13 teeth in the maxilla.Certain aspects of the ecology and anatomy of living Crocodylus rhombifer in Cuba, and carbon isotope data from fossil crocodile bones from both the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas, indicate that the Cuban crocodile is a terrestrially adapted predator. The fossil deposits in Oleg's Bat Cave and other underwater caves in the Dominican Republic lack freshwater vertebrates, such as fish and turtles, but contain abundant samples of hystricognath rodents, small ground sloths, and other terrestrial vertebrates, including large land tortoises, that apparently were the primary prey of the crocodiles. Bats are abundant in the fossil deposits in Oleg's Bat Cave, and may have been an additional food source. Bone collagen from a tibia of C. rhombifer from Oleg's Bat Cave yielded an AMS radiocarbon date of 6460 ±30 ryrBP (equivalent to 7320 to 7430 cal yrBP). The chronology for the local extinction of C. rhombifer in Hispaniola is currently unknown, except to document the presence of this species in the eastern Dominican Republic in the early Holocene. Radiocarbon dates and historical records confirm that Cuban crocodiles survived into the period of European colonization (post-1492) in the Bahamas and on Grand Cayman. The only species of crocodile currently found in Hispaniola, the American crocodile (C. acutus), occurs in coastal marine habitats and in two inland brackishwater lakes: Lago Enriquillo in the Dominican Republic and the nearby Etang Saumâtre in Haiti. C. acutus has no fossil record in Hispaniola or elsewhere in the West Indies, suggesting that this species may be a very recent (late Holocene) immigrant in the Antillean region. Crocodylus rhombifer has one of the most limited geographic ranges of any living crocodylian species, known only from freshwater swamps in south-central Cuba and the Isla de Juventud (Isla de Pinos) off the southwestern coast of Cuba. Locally extinct or extirpated populations of C. rhombifer from fossil deposits in the Dominican Republic, Grand Cayman, and the Bahamas document a considerably wider distribution for this spe

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Reviewed by: The Italian Legacy in the Dominican Republic: History, Architecture, Economics, Society ed. by Andrea Canepari Jeffery T. Morris Canepari, Andrea, ed. The Italian Legacy in the Dominican Republic: History, Architecture, Economics, Society. Saint Joseph's University Press, 2021. Humans depend on the strength of their connections and relationships with one another to ensure their health and resilience as individuals, communities, societies, nations, and, ultimately, a species. We are social beings who need one another to survive and to thrive. It was therefore both fortunate and gratifying to encounter a book that expansively covers the centuries-long relationship between the people of two nations, Italy and the Dominican Republic, which has enriched both countries. In The Italian Legacy in the Dominican Republic, Andrea Canepari, who served as Italy's ambassador to the Dominican Republic, brings together in one large volume an impressive number of contributions from individuals of wide-ranging backgrounds, expertise, and experience, who collectively tell a fascinating story of the long and multifaceted relationship between Italians and Dominicans. The English version of the book is published by Saint Joseph's University Press in Philadelphia. The work covers a wide range of topics, arranged into the following sections: history; architecture; literature and the arts; economics and science; and journalism, law, and society. Within each topical section are diverse contributions of varying length, depth of coverage, level of analysis, and point of view. It is this diversity that makes reading The Italian Legacy in the Dominican Republic such a delight. In the subsection on ecclesiastical history, for instance, the reader is treated to a historical sweep across Dominican time and space, beginning with a survey of the clash between Bishop Alessandro Geraldini and local officials over indigenous peoples' rights in the early 1500s, to an account of Archbishop Ricardo Pittini's mid-twentieth-century management of the Church's relationship with the Dominican government during the long [End Page 440] rule of Rafael Trujillo. Likewise, in the political history subsection, contributions cover a broad swath of time, from a comparison of Dominican hero Juan Pablo Duarte with celebrated Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini, to an intriguing account of an Italian soldier of the Second World War who ended his life fighting with Dominican insurgents in the 1965 uprising in Santo Domingo. The other sections—spanning a wide range of Italian-Dominican cultural, political, scientific, economic, and other social interactions and connections over the history of the Dominican Republic—are equally diverse and informative. The book is also filled with many interesting and evocative photographs and illustrations that enhance the reader's engagement with the work. The section on architecture, divided into colonial and modern parts, is particularly rich in photographs of early and modern Italian-Dominican architecture. One of the photographs of the interior of the National Palace serves as the book's cover photo and exemplifies the vivid and sometimes outright gorgeous photographs the reader will find in this section as well as throughout the book. Some readers may find puzzling the unevenness of the chapters, which range from half-page thumbnail sketches to full treatment of historical subjects, and from annotated lists of archival records to incisive academic analyses. However, this unusual diversity of compilation lends both a charm and an interest to the work that, once readers give themselves over to it, opens a unique, immersive, and rewarding reading experience that can be appreciated by scholars and lay persons alike. For those who are interested in Italian-Dominican relations, Italian and Dominican history, or in general how relationships between nations enrich not just national cultures but the human experience broadly, Andrea Canepari's The Italian Legacy in the Dominican Republic is a useful, edifying, and entertaining contribution to the literature on cross-national and global relations. The editor and all the many contributors are to be applauded for producing this informative and enjoyable book. [End Page 441] Jeffery T. Morris Independent Scholar Copyright © 2022 Association of Global South Studies, Inc.

A fin de garantizar su dominio en Santo Domingo, la corona española, estableció una política racial de valoración y reconocimiento legal del blanco y de subvaloración al indio, el negro, el árabe, el judío, el mestizo y los mulatos. En la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII, en las universidades de Santo Tomás de Aquino, de los dominicos, y la de Santiago de la Paz, de los jesuitas, en la iglesia, las milicias, en las oficinas reales y el comercio, iban penetrando los mulatos y ocupando posiciones de dirección a pesar de la política segregacionista de la corona, lo que preocupaba y atemorizaba a las autoridades españolas, como lo reveló el gobernador Azlor, en un informe secreto al rey sobre que de seguir esto los mulatos en poco tiempo tomarían el poder.

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Preface Warren D. Allmon Contributors 1. Palaeobiological Research in the Cibao Valley of the Northern Dominican Republic Ross H. Nehm and Ann F. Budd 2. An Overview of the Regional Geology and Stratigraphy of the Neogene Deposits of the Cibao Valley, Dominican Republic Donald F. McNeill, James S. Klaus, Charles C. Evans and Ann F. Budd 3. Constraints on Late Miocene Shallow Marine Seasonality for the Central Caribbean using Oxygen Isotope and Sr/Ca Ratios in a Fossil Coral Rhawn F. Denniston, Stephanie C. Penn and Ann F. Budd 4. Assessing the Effects of Taphonomic Processes on Palaeobiological Patterns using Turbinid Gastropod Shells and Opercula Ross H. Nehm and Caroles S. Hickman 5. Early evolution of the Montastraea 'annularis' species complex (Anthozoa: Scleractinia): Evidence from the Mio-Pliocene of the Dominican Republic Ann F. Budd and James S. Klaus 6. Evolutionary Patterns within the Reef Coral Siderastrea in the Mio-Pliocene of the Dominican Republic Brain R. Beck and Ann F. Budd 7. Neogene Evolution of the Reef Coral Species Complex Montastraea 'Cavernosa' Holly A. Schultz and Ann F. Budd 8. The Dynamics of Evolutionary Stasis and Change in the 'Prunum maoense Group' Ross H. Nehm 9. Assessing Community Change in Miocene to Pliocene Coral Assemblages of the Northern Dominican Republic James S. Klaus, Ann F. Budd, Kenneth G. Johnson and Donald F. McNeill 10. Mollusc Assemblage Variability in the Rio Gurabo Section (Dominican Republic Neogene): Implications for Species-level Stasis Rysanek Rivera, Jermaine Lawson, Maria Harvey and Ross H. Nehm 11. The Impact of Fossils from the Northern Dominican Republic on Origination Estimates for Miocene and Pliocene Caribbean Reef Corals Kenneth G. Johnson, Ann F. Budd, James S. Klaus andDonald F. McNeill 12. Science Education and the Dominican Republic Project Ross H. Nehm, Ann. F. Budd, and Jupiter Luna 13. The Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America ('NMITA') database: Integrating data from the Dominican Republic Project Ann. F. Budd, Tiffany S. Adrain, Juw Won Park, James S. Klaus and Kenneth G. Johnson

Nesting by three species of marine turtles persists in the Dominican Republic, despite historic threats and long-term population decline. We conducted a genetic survey of marine turtles in the Dominican Republic in order to link them with other rookeries around the Caribbean. We sequenced a 740bp fragment of the control region of the mitochondrial DNA of 92 samples from three marine turtle species [hawksbill (n = 48), green (n = 2) and leatherback (n = 42)], and incorporated published data from other nesting populations and foraging grounds. The leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) in the Dominican Republic appeared to be isolated from Awala-Yalimapo, Cayenne, Trinidad and St. Croix but connected with other Caribbean populations. Two distinct nesting populations of hawksbill turtles (Eremochelys imbricata) were detected in the Dominican Republic and exhibited interesting patterns of connectivity with other nesting sites and juvenile and adult male foraging aggregations. The green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) has almost been extirpated from the Dominican Republic and limited inference could be made from our samples. Finally, results were compared with Lagrangian drifting buoys and published Lagrangian virtual particles that travelled through the Dominican Republic and Caribbean waters. Conservation implications of sink-source effects or genetic isolation derived from these complex inter-connections are discussed for each species and population.

Introduction: Breast cancer (BC) worldwide is the most common cancer in women; in the Dominican Republic, it is the second in frequency (3,244) and mortality (1,457) (1). Hereditary breast cancer is 5-10%, the BRCA mutation (mBRCA) is the most frequently identified (45-68%) (2). mBRCA is more frequent in African and Latino populations (3) (4), and in the Dominican Republic, a multiracial country (5), they have not been studied. It is important to study them due to their prognostic and predictive value of innovative, effective and safe treatments; In healthy carriers, prevention would contribute to lower mortality. Objective: Determine the prevalence of mBRCA in patients with (BC)-HER2 negative and high-grade serous ovarian cancer (OC) in the Dominican Republic, in the years 2020 - 2022 and mBRCA 1/2, in patients with BC- HER2 negative, in early and metastatic stage, and high-grade serous OC in first and second line (1L and 2L). Method: It is a non-experimental, retrospective, cross-sectional, multicenter investigation in patients with BC- HER2 negative, high-grade serous OC, who underwent BRCA 1/2 testing, in 15 centers in the Dominican Republic, data obtained from the program “AstraZeneca BRCA 1/2 Testing”, for the Dominican Republic. The Medgenome laboratory received 881 tests, 82.5% with BC and 17.5% with OC, to determine sequence variants by NGS on the Illumina platform and analyze large deletions or duplications by MLPA, in the BRCA1/2 genes. The sample, composed of 856 valid tests to be processed, 25 invalid tests (2.9%) were excluded from the prevalence analysis. In the clinic, patients with negative BC-HER2 were stratified into two groups: hormone receptor positive BC (HR+) and triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), early stage or metastatic. Inclusion criteria: TNBC IIA- IIIB; BCHR+ 1L neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy, under 45 years of age or family history of 1st or 2nd degree cancer; patients with advanced high-grade serous or endometroid OC, stage III or IV. Results: 720 BC-HER2 negative tests were analyzed, 13.2% were mBRCA, 60% mBRCA1 and 40% mBRCA2. 52% were BCHR+, 11% mBRCA, 4% VUS and the rest non-pathogenic. 6% was mBRCA1 and 5% was mBRCA2. TNBC 48%, with 16% mBRCA, mBRCA1 was observed in 10% and 6% mBRCA2 and 0.3% mBRCA1/m BRCA2. VUS at 5%. In BCRH+ 52.5% were staged, 67.7% in early stage (EE) and 32.3% in metastatic (ME), PV 9% and 12% respectively. mBRCA1 5% in EE and 4% mBRCA2; in ME 6% mBRCA1/2; VUS in 3% EE and 4% ME. TNBC was staged in 47.5%, in EE 69.3% and ME 30.7%, VP mBRCA in 15% and 21% respectively. In EE 7% mBRCA1 and 8% mBRCA2; in ME 16% in BRCA1 and 5% mBRCA2. 5% VUS in EE and 3% in ME. 77% of BCRH+ were between 31 and 60 years old, with 102 patients (29%) predominating in the group between 41 and 50 years old. In TNBC aged 31 to 40 years the mBRCA1 VP was 25%. 136 OC tests were analyzed, 41.2% germline (G) and 58.8% somatic (S). VP 16.2%, VPG 18% and VPS 15%; mBRCA1 in 12.5% ​​VPG and VPS; mBRCA2 5% in VPG and 2.5% VPS; VUSS 5% and VUSG 1.7%. In (1LG) 80% and 86% (1LS); in (2LG) 20% and 16% (2LS); 20% VP mBRCA in (1LG) and 14% (1LS). VP mBRCA in 9% in (2LG) there was no VP in (2LS). mBRCA was observed over 41 to 50 years of age, but 67% of patients were 51 to over 60 years of age. Conclusion: The Prevalence in the Dominican Republic of BRCA mutations in patients with BC-HER2 negative is 13.2% and in OC is 16.2%. BRCA1 was the most frequent mutation, TNBC is the molecular subtype that most frequently presented the mutation; the BRCA mutation was observed more frequently in the metastatic stage. In OC, IPV was more frequent in (1L) and the most affected age group was 41 to 50 years, at a younger age for BC. Citation Format: Rosa Vassallo, Juana Espinal Irene Estévez, Katty López, Millyant Rojas, Yaresy Mendoza, Ivonne Pérez, Gilberto Fernández. Prevalence of BRCA mutations in patients with HER2-negative breast cancer and high-grade serous ovary in the Dominican Republic [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2024; 2024 Dec 10-13; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Clin Cancer Res 2025;31(12 Suppl):Abstract nr P1-03-10.

The 10th Migration Dialogue seminar was held March 7-9, 2002 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Migration Dialogue seminars provide a setting for 40 opinion leaders from Europe and North America to learn about and discuss the major migration management issues of the twenty-first century. Seminars include day-long field trips that enable participants to observe real-world migration issues, and to discuss them with government officials, employers, and migrant advocates and migrants. Reports of past seminars are at: The Caribbean island of Hispaniola is divided between two quite different countries, the Dominican Republic (DR) and Haiti. Emigration pressures from the Dominican Republic are often described as structural, suggesting that foreign investment and the creation of factory jobs in export-processing zones or services would not reduce the desire of many Dominicans to emigrate. The Dominican Republic is a transnational society 1 in 9 residents lives abroad, and many shuttle between New York City or Boston and the Dominican Republic in a lifestyle characterized by work-in-the-U.S. and vacation or retirement in the Dominican Republic: Over there (U.S.) is the country of work. This is the country of the heart. The central issues explored in the 2002 seminar included: