Cases have been on the rise year on year. The number of amputations in 2022 (10,168) was 3.9% higher than in 2021 (9,781)—a daily average of 27.85 surgeries a day in public health care facilities last year.
Black Brazilians display the worst indicators for employment, income, education, and political participation compared to whites, even though blacks account for 56% of the national population, as per official data.
Black women are 46 percent more likely to have an abortion than white women, across all ages. This means that, for every 10 white women who have an abortion, some 15 black women face the same situation, as per the study Abortion and Race in Brazil, 2016 to 2021.
The Butantan Institute and Fiocruz supply most of Brazil’s jabs, serums, and other immunobiologicals under the National Immunization Program (PNI)—which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. That is one of the reasons mentioned by specialists explaining the program’s success.
For 50 years, the country’s National Immunization Program (PNI) has been carrying out the ambitious mission of immunizing a huge population spread over a continent-sized territory deeply marked by the diversity of cultures and landscapes and contrasting living conditions.