Indigenous Peoples have suffered disproportionally from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Systemic factors including lack of sovereignty, limited infrastructure and discrimination in local health care systems make Indigenous populations vulnerable to infectious diseases.
Reviewed by Megan Craig, M.Sc.Aug 24 2023 Yet little research exists to guide public health efforts tailored to remote-living Indigenous populations during global pandemics.
Sadly, the researchers confirmed their model's predictions, observing a nearly identical rate of infection across Tsimané communities in the real world, based on serological testing of individuals after a first wave of COVID-19 infections. The idea for the study, published in the journal PLOS Biology, began at the outbreak of the pandemic. Many of the authors have worked with the Tsimané through the Tsimané Health and Life History Project. Senior author Michael Gurven, professor of anthropology at the UC Santa Barbara, co-founded the project back in 2002. The project operates a mobile medical team that travels between villages to provide aid, while also conducting biomedical and anthropological research.
"The Beni region of Bolivia is pretty remote, and medical facilities are hard to come by," said Dr. Daniel Eid Rodriguez, a physician and medical coordinator for the Tsimané project based in Bolivia. "Any information that can help us make informed choices to best direct limited health resources are a blessing."
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