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Documentary to Watch: Ayahuasca: Drink the Jungle

You can stream, for free, the documentary Ayahuasca: Drink the Jungle, a film by Aubrey Marcus and director Mitch Schultz.

Ancestral Andean Medicine: Insights into Traditional Healing

Traditional Inca medicine still lives strong today, but by delving into the past we can see that there is much that's been lost. By...

Peru Gives Out Pills For HIV Prevention

Peru has become the third Latin American country, after Mexico and Brazil, to deliver a pill that serves to prevent HIV infection in up...

Chile, Argentina, Peru And Colombia Agree On Joint Purchase Of Medicines

Chile, Argentina, Peru and Colombia have signed an agreement to jointly purchase medicines in order to access lower prices and reduce the cost of...

EsSalud Has Saved More Than 7,000 People With Organ Transplants

One donor can save up to 10 lives. 90% of organ transplants registered in Peru, from 1969 to the present, were performed by surgeons of...

Health Workers In Peru Start Indefinite Strike

Yesterday, health workers in Peru began a strike to demand the government to address a series of complaints, including the increase in wages and...

Amazon Tribe Creates Medicinal Encyclopedia

It has been written in the Matsés language to prevent corporations from appropriating the knowledge. The Matsés tribe that is settled in the Amazon jungle,...

New Project to Regulate Medicine Prices

A control in medicine prices will impede pharmacies to sell overpriced products. In midst of the debate of Inkafarma’s domain in the pharmaceutical market, Congressman...