Indigenous radio facing the Covid-19 pandemic in the Peruvian Amazon. The case of Radio Ucamara (Nauta, Loreto, Peru)
Abstract
The indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon region have been harshly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Practically after its arrival, different initiatives arose to provide adequate information in indigenous languages, as well as other directed to help alleviate and reduce the effects of the pandemic. In this article we analyze a project implemented to deal with COVID-19 pandemic and with other sanitary emergencies in general. This project was designed together with the team of indigenous and non-indigenous communicators in Radio Ucamara radio project, located in the city of Nauta (Loreto region), in the northeastern Amazon of Peru. The main objective of this project was to use the radio a communication hub that could allow the flow of information on health issues from the indigenous communities to the regional authorities, and vice versa, in such a way that it could promote timely and culturally relevant primary health interventions.
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