Amazonas partners with Peru to combat diseases in the Triple Border region
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Continuous flow of people presents specific challenges for health surveillance, including controlling communicable diseases and responding effectively to public health emergencies in a timely manner.
Manaus (AM) – Amazonas began a partnership with Peruvian institutions to intensify the diagnosis of infectious diseases, benefiting vulnerable populations in the Triple Border region, between Brazil, Peru and Colombia. The initiative that strengthens health surveillance actions in the border area is from the Amazonas Health Surveillance Foundation – Dr. Rosemary Costa Pinto (FVS-RCP).
The partnership was signed by FVS-RCP with the Universidad Nacional de La Amazonía Peruana (Unap) and the Regional Health Management located in Iquitos, capital of the Department of Loreto and the Province of Maynas, in Peru. The institutions are located in the triple border region, characterized by the intense mobility of the Brazilian, Peruvian and Colombian populations.
This continuous flow of people presents specific challenges for health surveillance, including controlling communicable diseases and responding effectively to public health emergencies in a timely manner.
The partnership between FVS-RCP and the two institutions promotes the exchange of experiences between Brazil and Peru, with a direct impact also on the border with Colombia, through the development of scientific research of public health interest in the cross-border region.
Between Thursday (14) and this Friday (15), a team from FVS-RCP completed an agenda at Unap for a technical visit and established intentions for collaborative action in public health, aiming to improve the epidemiological characterization of infectious diseases in the region, according to the Foundation’s CEO, Tatyana Amorim.
“The objective of the visit is to strengthen institutional relationships so that we can implement strategies with the university for health surveillance purposes at the border, mainly identifying emerging pathogens that could affect the health of the population through the Border Laboratory”,
said Tatyana, referring to Lafron, Border Strategic Health Surveillance Information Center (Cievs) and Health Analysis Room, members of the FVS-RCP and located in Tabatinga (1,108 kilometers from Manaus).
To establish the partnership, the team carried out a technical visit to Unap. The strategy integrates innovative disease prevention and control actions in the region. “This joint work will allow us to articulate the presence of each of these diseases. The Amazon is one. It was a very important meeting for both countries in terms of health”, highlighted the rector of Unap, Rodil Tello Espinoza.
The agenda in Peru also included a technical visit to the Loreto Regional Health Management, in Iquitos. On this occasion, cooperation between health teams was strengthened. For the disease coordinator at Geresa de Loreto, Cristiam Carey Angeles, who is also a professor at Unap, the action is an opportunity for joint integrated care, strengthening the theme in academia and an opportunity to work together in the triple border.
“For us, this is a great opportunity, because we will be able to act together, above all generating evidence to strengthen the topic (in academia) smoothly and to strengthen health care”,
said Cristiam, mentioning that the presence of university students from Unap can add to human resources with the aim of improving public health in the triple border.
Still on the agenda in Peru, the FVS-RCP team carried out a technical visit to the Public Health Laboratory linked to the Regional Health Directorate in Loreto; to the Unap fields of Agricultural Sciences, Biological Sciences, Food Engineering and the Faculty of Human Medicine.
*With information from consultancy
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