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Engaging civil society and communities and other entry points for addressing the impact of COVID-19 on Indigenous populations and Afrodescendants in the Americas
Dr. Anna Coates
Webinar: Health inequities and racial and ethnicity-based discrimination: what COVID-19 is teaching us
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PAHO/WHOCurrent attention to racial and ethnic inequities and structural discrimination highlights urgency of increasing commitments to working with indigenous and Afro-descendant populations
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Intercultural, differentiated targeted approaches and knowledge dialogues to account for diversity, address discrimination and
advance equityDifferences within and between groups, countries and subregions:
• Living conditions (rural vs urban; Indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation, etc)• Unequal advances for Indigenous
peoples and afro-descendants • Differential vulnerability and
exposure within communities (intersections with gender and other inequalities)
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Culturally adequate COVID-19 responses
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Indigenous health leaders’ training
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Afrodescendant risk communications
Argentina
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PAHO/WHO
Participation and engagement for equitable, culturally sensitive responses
Three subregional consultations and two
High Level Meetings with Indigenous
and Afrodescendant leaders identified
thematic priorities for action:
• equitable access to quality, culturally
responsive health services;
• underlying conditions affecting the health
of Indigenous and afro-descendant
populations
• information and data systems to identify
the priorities of indigenous peoples and
monitor actions
• dialogue and participation
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