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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva looks on, as he visits the Yanomami Indigenous Health House (CASA ...

At a hospital in the Brazilian Amazon, Yanomami children are being treated for malnutrition and other ailments – Copyright AFP Michal Cizek In a hospital in Brazil ...

The Yanomami child stares with blank eyes out of a body reduced to skin and bones by extreme hunger. The image of the Yanomami humanitarian crisis circled the globe early this year. On Jan. 21, the ...

BRASILIA, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Brazil's ministry of health has declared a medical emergency in the Yanomami territory, the country's largest indigenous reservation bordering Venezuela, following reports ...