There was an article I did not post about how there were more pregnancies because of a lack of contraception available. This seems to have a similar premise, meaning, the health system is broken down in Venezuela.
Venezuela’s HIV Crisis Crosses the Border
Patrick Ammerman
CÚCUTA, Colombia—Once a month, Marisol RamÃrez travels 43 miles by car and then on foot to cross one of the most dangerous borders in the world. She joins the estimated 30,000 people daily who travel across the Simón BolÃvar International Bridge to enter Colombia from Venezuela. As the economic and political crisis in Venezuela has intensified over the past few years, this bridge has become one of the main ways to access affordable food and goods for thousands of Venezuelans.
Like many with chronic health conditions, RamÃrez knows her health depends on reaching Colombia.
“If during the bridge crossing, they don’t even give us the chance of at least getting to the hospital, we are going to go die,†she said in an interview over the summer.
RamÃrez, 56, has lived the past 20 years of her life with HIV/AIDS. ...
Continued at: https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/28/venezuela-hiv-crisis-crosses-the-border-colombia-migrants-health-care/
