La Organización Panamericana de la Salud / Organización Mundial de la Salud (OPS/OMS) realizó el Taller Género, Salud, Derechos e Interculturalidad en el ámbito de la Salud con lideresas indígenas de Vaupés y Vichada para intercambiar conceptos, experiencias y percepciones sobre género; derechos humanos e interculturalidad, y su relación con la salud desde su propia vivencia y cosmovisión.

Mitú, Vaupés, 29 May 2012. The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) are meeting in the Department of Vaupés from 27 to 31 May, where they are evaluating a project designed to improve health and provide greater protection against communicable diseases for women, children, and excluded populations in situations of vulnerability in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The indigenous community of Pueblo Nuevo, Vaupés, is receiving equipment for its health unit as a part of the project to improve health and provide greater protection against communicable diseases for women, children and excluded populations in situations of vulnerability in Latin America and the Caribbean, a project of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).

The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) are implementing a project in Colombia called “Improved Health and Increased Protection from Communicable Diseases for Women, Children and Excluded Populations in Latin America and the Caribbean.”