indigenous communities

Shortening distances: providing healthcare to indigenous communities in Venezuela’s Delta Amacuro state

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Rivers serve as roads and tropical rainforest stretches to the horizon in Delta Amacuro state, a vast area bordering the Atlantic Ocean in northeastern Venezuela. Largely inaccessible, this region is home to a large number of Indigenous communities who face significant challenges accessing healthcare.  Many indigenous communities live scattered along the banks of the Orinoco … Read more

Brazil: MSF responds to indigenous health crisis in the Amazon

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The vast area of the Amazon Basin has always presented a challenge when it comes to providing healthcare to the Indigenous people who live there. But in recent years, the complexity has increased, as an absence of measures to protect some communities, combined with cuts to health budgets for Indigenous people, have created real threats … Read more