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Main image: Dr Erik Jennings (left) has been helping to treat remote indigenous people for more than 20 years. Image: Erik Jennings
The funeral of an 87-year-old indigenous woman of the Borari
ethnicity mobilized an entire neighborhood on March 20. Hundreds of people
showed up to...
A 20-year-old Kokama indigenous
woman in northern Amazonas state tested positive for the virus,
according to the federal government’s body in charge of health services
for indigenous people in Brazil (SESAI).She is one of
27 people who are being monitored after being in contact with Dr.
Matheus Feitosa, who was diagnosed with COVID-19 last week. Feitosa is a
SESAI...
As the coronavirus spreads around the globe, with more than 300 known cases already in Brazil, and members of Pres. Jair Bolsonaro’s staff infected, an evangelical Christian organization has purchased a helicopter with plans to contact and convert isolated indigenous groups in the remote Western Amazon.Ethnos360, formerly known as the New Tribes Mission, is...