Complex Humanitarian Health Crisis: Venezuela in Emergency

Source: World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM). Published: 12/5/2018. During the past four years, Venezuela has plunged into a humanitarian, economic, and health crisis. This 56-minute webinar discusses how In this context, the rapid resurgence of previously well-controlled diseases, such as vaccine-preventable (measles, diphtheria) and arthropod-borne (malaria, dengue) diseases, has turned them into epidemics of unprecedented magnitudes. In response to Venezuela ’s rapidly decaying situation, a massive population exodus is ongoing toward neighboring countries. (Video or Multimedia)
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