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Indigenous Peoples and Vaccines
The COVID-19 pandemic poses a grave health threat to Indigenous Peoples around the world. Indigenous communities already experience poor access to healthcare, significantly higher rates of communicable and non-communicable diseases, lack of access to essential services, sanitation, and other key preventive measures, such as clean water, soap, disinfectant, etc. Shani Mangola (Hadza) tells us about his people and how they feel about vaccines.
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COVID - 19 and Indigenous Community Controlled Health
Mainstream health services have not adequately met the health needs of Indigenous Peoples in both rural and urban settings. In addition, mainstream health services situated in capitals and major cities have not been accessible and are inadequate and culturally inappropriate to many urban Indigenous populations or to those that travel from the communities to get attention in the city.
COVID - 19 Vaccines
After months of clinical trials by many companies in different countries, several vaccines, which are 94-95% effective, have finally been approved and are now making their way to hospitals, clinics, and doctors' rooms.
Professor Michael Yellowbird on Indigenous Peoples and Mental, Physical, and Spiritual Well Being
Professor Michael Yellowbird discusses how Indigenous communities are coping with the less obvious effects of COVID-19.
Doctor Ruby Gibson on Healing and Somatic Archaeology
Dr. Ruby Gibson discusses how each body is an archaeological site that holds details and wisdom of life stories, composed of generational, spiritual, and personal experiences. Historical amnesia locks these stories in the body, manifesting as pain, disease, addictions, emotional patterns, and repetitive circumstances.
Indigenous Women's Health
Indigenous women represent one of the most vulnerable and marginalized populations in the world. For centuries, Indigenous women have been subjected to relentless discrimination and different types of violence based on gender, Indigeneity, and class.
World Health Day
Every year on April 7, World Health Day (WHD), a day championed by the World Health Organization (WHO), is commemorated internationally. The day was conceived in 1948, and the first annual WHD was celebrated in 1950 in support of drawing attention to the WHO. In this program, we interview Connie Hang, Youth Coordinator of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Federation.
UNDRIP Article 24: The Right to Traditional Medicines
Article 24 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples states that Indigenous Peoples have the right to their traditional medicines and to maintain their health practices and also have the right to access, without any discrimination, to all social and health services.
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Especial de Radio: Día Mundial de la Salud
¿Qué compromisos se deben asumir para garantizar la salud de las comunidades Indígenas ante el covid-19? ¿Cuál ha sido el rol de los pueblos Indígenas en este tema? En este especial de radio, puede escuchar algunas respuestas en base a producciones realizadas por Radio comunitaria Naköj en Guatemala, Radio Comunitaria Estéreo Lluvia de México y Cultural Survival.
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El Cáncer en las Comunidades Indígenas
Este programa especial es más que un informe científico y médico sobre el tema pues también lanza la mirada a los problemas familiares, comunitarios y personales que enfrentan las mujeres Indígenas que viven con cáncer.
Día Mundial de la Salud
¿Cuáles son las enfermedades que han afectado a los Pueblos Indígenas? ¿Quiénes deben estar involucrados para garantizar la salud?. Este programa puede ayudarte a responder estas dos importantes preguntas.
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