Venezuela faces a complex humanitarian emergency that is expanding and cascading throughout the Latin American region and around the globe. New research from ICASO and ACCSI reveal that health, economic, security and social wellbeing projections are far worse than previously estimated.
In November 2017, ICASO and ACCSI published their first report on Venezuela’s catastrophe, entitled Triple Threat: Resurging epidemics, a broken health system and global indifference to Venezuela’s crisis. The report warned that if the world continued to ignore the toxic mix of ineptitude, ignorance and indolence perpetuated by the current Venezuelan government, the resurgence of epidemics would risk failing to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
ICASO and ACCSI have just released a new update to the initial report, which highlights the most important milestones throughout 2018 and the beginning of 2019 with respect to HIV, malaria and tuberculosis in Venezuela. The results are sobering:
Additionally, the rapid deterioration of the living conditions of the Venezuelan population requires realistic, concrete and immediate responses. Any delay in making and implementing decisions to address this deterioration translates into increasing rates of morbidity and mortality.
Triple Threat calls for the urgent streamlining of plans to prevent the further loss of life and human dignity among people living with HIV and affected by TB, malaria, and other health conditions. Failure to do so not only affects Venezuela; left unchecked, these resurgent epidemics threaten global health security.
Source: ICASO