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Strengthening Traditional Medicine at the Xipai Women’s Meeting

In August 2024, Health In Harmony was honored to attend Juma Institute’s first Meeting of Indigenous Xipai Women and Riverine at the Kaarimã village in the Xipaya Territory. This joyful event’s focus was to unite and strengthen women's ancestral knowledge, promote cultural practices, and encourage the exchange of knowledge between communities of the Xipaya Indigenous territory and its partners. 

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Protecting Women’s Health and Forests: The Link Between Cervical Cancer Prevention and Climate Justice

Meeting the expressed healthcare needs of women and girls is not only critical for their well-being but also for fostering sustainable livelihoods, empowering decision-making, and strengthening community resilience to the cascading effects of climate change. In Madagascar, cervical cancer prevention is a pressing health concern; find out more about HIH’s cervical cancer initiatives.

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Supporting dental care for children in Borneo

In Matan in Indonesian Borneo, Dr Norma Sari, a Health In Harmony affiliated dentist, has been treating children of five to seven years old. Often, she is finding that their baby teeth have rotted, leaving them with no teeth until adult teeth develop. See how HIH is approaching child health care in Indonesia.

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How Health Guardians are improving healthcare in Madagascar

Education is critical when it comes to healthcare. The Health Guardian program in Madagascar was devised to train and employ community-selected villagers, usually women, to support healthcare services like vaccinations, malaria, and malnutrition treatments, as well as household basic health screenings.

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Pioneering new types of healthcare payment

Healthy communities can heal the planet, and costly healthcare forces Indigenous Peoples and local communities to turn to income streams such as illegal logging in order to access the life saving medicine that should be a human right. For this reason, making healthcare more accessible to rainforest communities has been a priority for Health in Harmony since its inception.

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Research to combat neglected tropical diseases in Madagascar

Spreading via water contact and affecting up to half of the youth population in some villages in Madagascar, schistosomiasis is this disease is second only to malaria as the most dangerous parasitic disease. HIH aims to identify areas inhabited by parasite-carrying snails in order to reduce human contact and transmission.

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An update from Health In Harmony’s Brazil team

Meet forest guardian Lúcia Xipaya. Born in Joa, near the town of Altamira in the Xingu basin in the Amazon, Lúcia’s belief and work centers around protecting Indigenous traditions to pass down to future generations, as well as protecting the forest that makes these traditions possible. 

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Soil Improvement Program Success in Madagascar

In the past, farmers in the Manombo region of Madagascar depended on zebu manure to add nutrients and organic matter to their soil. But with zebu banditry on the rise, many farming communities no longer keep cattle, and their soil has been suffering. That’s why communities designed a soil improvement program through Radical Listening.

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Finance Day at COP28

Today is Finance, Trade, Equality and Accountability Day at COP28! At Health In Harmony our aim is to reverse tropical rainforest deforestation to halt the climate and ecological crises, we believe that the best way to do this is to listen to rainforest communities and invest precisely in their solutions (healthcare, livelihoods, and education).

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