Project
Education on Health and Well-being for Indigenous Populations: Preventing STI/HIV/AIDS and Viral Hepatitis
Its purpose is to strengthen health education for Indigenous peoples in their mother language while supporting education and health professionals to promote health in their communities. In addition, it dedicates its efforts to preventive actions regarding COVID-19 and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV/AIDS, and viral hepatitis in Indigenous schools and the communities where they are located.
Providing Indigenous Peoples with access to information on ways to prevent and treat COVID-19, STI/HIV/AIDS, and viral hepatitis, this partnership intends to cooperate in the implementation of policies that ensure the rights of indigenous peoples to qualified healthcare. Besides, it plans to guarantee formal intercultural education configured by the practice of bilingual education 鈥 Portuguese and Indigenous languages 鈥 and by the learning processes themselves.
Through respect and recognition of Indigenous knowledge, practices and care, the partnership intends to contribute to the fight against stigma and prejudice experienced by these peoples and to maintain their physical and socio-cultural integrity.
Respect for diversity and socio-cultural specificities is essential to combat prejudice and all forms of discrimination and violence. In this sense, policymakers must consider having the participation of Indigenous Peoples' representatives when developing policies about illness, healing, and health processes aimed at these Peoples. In a context marked by the pandemic of the new coronavirus, the project has published materials aiming at collaborating in information dissemination that contribute to a respectful dialogue with each of these people, from whom we have much to learn.
Direct beneficiaries
Videos on intercultural dialogue
The videos show the experience of the Warao people from the Brazil-Venezuela border on the intercultural dialogue between indigenous knowledge and practices and the knowledge offered by education and health services. The videos have been produced in Warao language to preserve their intangible linguistic knowledge. They include subtitles in Portuguese or Spanish.
Videos on COVID-19 prevention and vaccination for Indigenous peoples
The process of preparing these COVID-19 prevention videos was carried out according to the methodology of intercultural dialogue and in a participatory manner. It involved seven indigenous ethnic groups present in the Amazon and Roraima: Wapichan, Ticuna, Yanomami, Ye'kwana, Macuxi e Taurepang.
Health, Education and Interculturality: Dialogue with Indigenous Peoples
As a follow-up to a workshop in the Javari Valley to support teachers in Marubo, Matis and Mayoruna (Mats茅s) areas in their actions to prevent diseases in indigenous schools, as well as in local communities, this film and its accompanying documents are part of the Preventive Education Series for STD/HIV/AIDS and Viral Hepatitis among Indigenous Peoples of Javari Valley (Amazonia, 2012-2014).
Publications
Publications from this project involved other UN agencies in Brazil. They were funded by the multi-partner trust fund (MPTF), a United Nations mechanism used to receive contributions from multiple financial partners and allocate such resources to implementing entities to support specific priorities. national, regional or global development.
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S茅rie Educa莽茫o em sa煤de e bem-estar para popula莽玫es ind铆genas:
