"A lot of families (in French Guiana) live in makeshift homes where people don't have access to water. When people don't have running water and no money because they have to feed and clothe their children and pay their rent, buying hydroalcoholic gel (hand sanitizer) is not a priority."
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Gabriel Serville (2021) cited in: "In French Guiana, virus exposes inequality, colonial legacy" in The Seattle Times, 19 July 2020.
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