Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in southwestern Brazil are reaching out indigenous communities hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic. “It arrived in full force,” says Alcery Marques Gabriel, an indigenous leader from the Terena tribe. “We lost elders who carried our history. Now what?” Indigenous people in Brazil have been historically neglected and left out of the public health care system. Over the past month, MSF mobile teams in Mato Grasso do Sul state have visited 11 villages to provide follow-up care for people who tested positive for the coronavirus and to detect new cases. We’re also doing community health promotion, and offering support and training for local health staff.
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