In the context of the project Contingency Plan for the Protection of Health in Vulnerable Indigenous Peoples and in Initial Contact, the technical team that develops the Studies Related to Health with a Territorial Basis, together with the project coordinator Carlos Macedo, participate in a technical mission to interview representatives from government, NGOs and Indigenous Peoples, on the situation of COVID-19 in the Triple Frontier. The objective is to listen to suggestions that can contribute to the activities that are executed together with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), with financing from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
The cities of Leticia (Colombia), Tabatinga and Atalaia do Norte (Brazil), Santa Rosa and Islandia (Peru) are the urban centers where the meetings will be held, all respecting COVID-19 protocols.
The mission’s agenda included the participation of the ACTO delegation in the Tri-National Meeting of Health Secretariats on the Triple Frontier, held in the city of Iquitos-Peru, whose results were concretized in a series of agreements that guide the formalization of the Situational Health surveillance room.
The Project Contingency Plan for the Protection of Health in Vulnerable Indigenous Peoples and in Initial Contact is intended to consolidate an action of regional cooperation of the Member Countries of ACTO in frontier areas of the Amazon Basin that allows to strengthen the local health-care services, which aims to reduce the impacts of COVID-19 and the threat of tropical diseases, emerging and endemic in vulnerable indigenous peoples in the border regions, with special emphasis on indigenous peoples in isolation and initial contact for their situation of vulnerability.
