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Neste artigo tivemos por objetivo analisar as características das Pedagogias decoloniais da militância e como se configuram uma Educação Outra na Associação dos Discentes Quilombolas da Universidade Federal do Pará (ADQ/UFPA). Como metodologia, adotamos a etnografia decolonial, com o corpus da pesquisa construído a partir de observação participante e entrevistas dialógicas. Neste sentido, ao assumirmos uma antropologia comprometida com a vida nos conectamos com a Associação dos Discentes Quilombolas, com suas lutas e suas Pedagogias decoloniais da militância: “Pedagogia da coletividade”, “Pedagogia da solidariedade”, “Pedagogia do respeito” e “Pedagogia da perseverança”.

Objectives: The performance of a new point-of-care CE-IVD-marked isothermal lab-on-phone COVID-19 assay was assessed in comparison to a gold standard real-time reverse transcriptase–PCR method. Methods: The study was conducted following a nonprobability sampling of ≥16-year-old volunteers from three different laboratories, using direct mouthwash (N = 24) or nasopharyngeal (N = 191) clinical samples. Results: The assay demonstrated 95.19% sensitivity and 100% specificity for detection of SARS-CoV-2 in direct nasopharyngeal crude samples and 78.95% sensitivity and 100% specificity in direct mouthwash crude samples. It also successfully detected currently predominant SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (Beta B.1.351, Delta B.1.617.2, and Omicron B.1.1.529) and demonstrated to be inert against potential cross-reactions of other common respiratory pathogens that cause infections that present similar symptoms to COVID-19. Conclusion: This lab-on-phone pocket-sized assay relies on an isothermal amplification of SARS-CoV-2’s N and E genes, taking just 50 minutes from sample to result, with only 2 minutes of hands-on time. It presents good performance when using direct nasopharyngeal crude samples, enabling a low-cost, real-time, rapid, and accurate identification of SARS-CoV-2 infections at the point of care, which is important for both clinical management and population screening, as a tool to break the chain of transmission of COVID-19 pandemic, especially in low-resources environments.