With 0.013% of the Brazilian population, the Yanomami accounted for 7% of deaths from child malnutrition in 2019-2020. More than 50% of Indigenous Yanomami children are underweight and suffering from ...

BOA VISTA, Brazil (AP) — From a distance, the small group lying on the sidewalk outside the city market could be confused with hundreds of homeless people spread through Boa Vista. But they are ...

Malnutrition due to lack of natural resources is one of the causes of Yanomami children having a mortality rate tenfold that of the whole of South America's largest country, Agencia Brasil reported ...

The invasion of miners into Yanomami land has deepened the challenges faced by the children and adolescents of this indigenous territory, as per a report released this week by the United Nations ...

This article was written by Felipe Medeiros, in collaboration with Kátia Brasil, and originally published on Amazônia Real's website on January 28, 2023. It is republished here, with edits, under a ...

BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil’s military should evict illegal gold miners who have caused malnutrition and starvation in a region of the Yanomami reservation near the Venezuelan border, Indigenous Health ...

BOA VISTA, Brazil, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Dozens of indigenous children suffering from malnutrition and acute diseases have been hospitalized in northern Brazil, with relatives in hammocks holding their ...

The infant mortality rate in the first year of life among the Yanomami population reached 114.3 per thousand births in 2020. According to data from the United Nations (UN), this figure is 10 times ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Boa Vista, Brazil: Dozens of indigenous children suffering from malnutrition and acute diseases have ...