Rio de Janeiro
This was the great challenge of newly elected President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva: putting an end to the health crisis in the Yanomami indigenous territory.
But a year later, the situation remains critical despite some progress.
Numerous testimonies of seriously ill children, women and men from this people, who live in the north of the Amazon rainforest, continue to emerge.
“In 2023, we were still faced with malaria, malnutrition, infectious diseases and hunger
,” denounced Junior Hekurari Yanomami, president of the Urihi association, on his Instagram account.
The reason: the return of gold miners, whose presence has increased again after having initially decreased during the first half of the year.
According to the Ministry of Health, 308 Yanomamis died between January and November 2023, barely less than the 343 deaths in 2022. And the number of malaria cases has exploded, from around 16,000 in 2022 to 25,000 in 2023. The total population in this indigenous territory…
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