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ICRC Medical Mission to the Brazilian Amazon Region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

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It will be recalled that, with the agreement of the Brazilian Ministry of the Interior and in close collaboration with the League of Red Cross Societies and the Brazilian Red Cross, the ICRC sent a team to Brazil in May 1970 to study the situation and needs of the Amazonian Indians. The team was led by Mr. S. Nessi, ICRC Delegate-General for Latin America, and comprised three doctors, B. Aakerren, S. Bakker and R. Habersang (who were loaned to the International Red Cross by the West German, Dutch and Swedish Red Cross Societies, which agreed also to meet the cost of the expedition) and a Swiss ethnologist, Mr. R. Fürst. They were joined in Rio de Janeiro by Dr. A. Borges dos Santos, a Brazilian Red Cross doctor. As they penetrated deep into the country, we published information on their journey, on the aid that they gave and on the medical centres that they set up.

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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 11 , Issue 123 , June 1971 , pp. 301 - 310
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1971

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page 301 note 1 See, especially: International Review, 06, 07, 08 1970.Google Scholar

page 301 note 2 Mr. Nessi arrived back in Rio de Janeiro on 1 June in order to consult with the Brazilian authorities before returning to Switzerland.

page 301 note 3 Plate.

page 303 note 1 In his book Indians of Brazil in the 20th Century, page 100.Google Scholar

page 304 note 1 Ribeiro uses the following definition of an Indian: “Any individual recognized as a member of a community of pre-Columbian origin, who identifies himself as ethnically different from nationals and is considered indigenous by the Brazilian population with whom he comes in contact”. Indians of Brazil in the 20th Century, page 105.Google Scholar

page 309 note 1 See World Health, WHO, Geneva, 07 1970.Google Scholar