The Bolivian alti-plano rarely sees snow  and almost never experience accumulation, but heavy snows in the past week have left travelers stranded and rural families in grave danger. Tourists and travelers have been evacuated from the highlands around Potosí where a week of snows have made roads nearly impassable and put at risk the lives [...]

In a statement made today, the Vice Minister for Health, Martín Maturano, announced that between 35% and 40% of the Yuqui community are ill with tuberculosis. He told the press: “We have a high prevalence which reaches up to 35-40% of the total population; in this sense it is a priority for us, and we [...]

Acording to Silvia Salinas, of the organization, Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir (Catholics for the Right to Decide), indigenous women in Bolivia are the most likely to suffer unwanted pregnancies, due to poor education, particularly in sexual and reproductive matters. Although the country has a large number of state policies on sexual and reproductive [...]

Climate change will make Bolivia highly vulnerable, current research shows, and problems will affect the health sector in the coming years. Public health expert and university professor Marlín Aparicio said that retreating glaciers and limited availability of water are two examples of the effects of climate change. In the following years, there will be a [...]

The third round of a Bolivian Ministry of Health program to vaccinate young girls against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) began yesterday. HPV can lead to cervical cancer if left untreated, and, according to the World Health Organization, approximately 260,000 women worldwide die from the disease every year. The Ministry began a pilot program in [...]

After a day of student marches and clashes with police that left one officer severly burned and 12 students arrested, the Bolivian univerisity systems have won an accord with the government regarding health care. In Bolivia university students and faculty have their own free health care system (the SSU) that maintains is own hospitals and [...]

The week around Bolivia’s carnival is always a dangerous one and this year deaths increased by 21% over last year, many were alcohol-related. There were 17 deaths by murder or suicide (alcohol …

Bolivia’s universal health insurance plan will include free traditional medicine services…

Bolivia has seen increasing intense rains cause significant damage in both Amazonian and Altiplano regions in the past several weeks. Landslides in La Paz and intense…

COCHABAMBA – An inter-institutional committee, presided over by leaders from the unions of Trópico de Cochabamba, came to the city of Chimoré to deliver…