Brazil, Dec. 16 -- At the Auaris Health Center in the Yanomami Indigenous territory in Brazil's Roraima state, hammocks serve as hospital beds for recovering patients.

Signs in the Sanoma and Ye'kwana languages, in addition to Portuguese, direct people through the hallways of the center, which was renovated and expanded through a partnership between Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and the Indigenous health authorities.

Federal authorities declared a health emergency in the Yanomami Indigenous Land in January 2023 due to several factors, including rising malnutrition, falling health budgets, and increasing prevalence of malaria. Between January and June 2023, there was 70 percent increase in cases of malaria compar...