Photo by edkashi / Jose Oscar Rivas Vasquez, 19, works in the El Angel mill's sugarcane fields, in Suchitoto, El Salvador, 2015. My work on CKDnT (chronic kidney disease of nontraditional causes) will be exhibited as part of COP26UK in Glasgow, opening October 31. The COP26 summit aims to push forward the goals of the Paris Agreement and UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. My image series focuses on the multigenerational impact of CKDnT as a global public health crisis and social injustice. Given the disease's prevalence among agricultural workers in tropical or subtropical countries around the world, studies have zeroed in on dehydration and climate-related heat stress as primary causes.
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