ALLIANCE FOR GOOD HEALTH
Oral Health & Nutrition
Mobile Medical & Dental Brigade — TIPNIS (2025)
Impact at a Glance -TIPNIS 2025
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Multiple Indigenous communities reached throughout the TIPNIS region
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Primary medical care and preventive services delivered to families
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Routine and catch-up vaccinations delivered
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Mobile dental team brought critical oral care directly to remote villages
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Oral health education focused on prevention and early care
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Access made possible through subsidized bush-plane transportation
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Local health teams led care. Alliance for Good Health supported access and logistics.
​This work was made possible through targeted donor support for transportation, logistics, and essential supplies, ensuring local health teams could reach communities otherwise cut off from care.
Support access-focused health care that strengthens local systems.
What Happened in 2025
In 2025, Alliance for Good Health supported a multidisciplinary medical and dental brigade led by local health professionals serving Indigenous communities in the TIPNIS region of the Bolivian Amazon.
Expanding access to essential medical and dental care
in remote Indigenous communities
Partners on the Ground
Medical and dental services were provided by physicians, nurses, and dentists from Health Network RED 02 – San Ignacio de Moxos, as well as a local dentist in San Ignacio de Moxos.
Additional logistical support was delivered by Mano a Mano, which helped facilitate low-cost air transportation when weather conditions permitted.
The Municipality of the Province of San Ignacio de Moxos also supported the brigade, reinforcing the importance of local-government collaboration.
Primary medical consultations at the Oromomo regional health center
Mobile dental services provided in La Curva
Our Role
Alliance for Good Health did not deliver services independently. Instead, we partnered closely with the local public health system to strengthen existing capacity and ensure culturally appropriate, sustainable care.
Our primary contribution in 2025 was financial support to cover subsidized cost bush plane transportation, enabling health teams to reach remote communities that are otherwise inaccessible by road or river during much of the year.
Subsidized air transportation made it possible for local health teams to reach remote TIPNIS communities otherwise inaccessible for much of the year.
Communities Served
During this brigade, health teams provided care in the following communities:
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Oromomo (regional health center serving the broader area)
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La Curva
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Totora
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San José
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Santo Domingo
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Areruta
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Ushve
These communities are dispersed across the TIPNIS region and are accessible only by river or air for much of the year.
Medical and preventive services provided by local health teams in Totora
Vaccinations delivered to families in La Curva as part of routine and catch-up immunization efforts
Dental care delivered through a mobile clinic in Ushve, reaching patients with no regular access to oral health services
Services Provided
Across all communities served, local health teams provided the following core services:
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Primary medical consultations
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Routine and catch-up vaccinations
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Dental evaluations and treatment provided through a mobile dental clinic
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Oral health education focused on prevention and early care
Routine well-child exams conducted by local health professionals during the medical brigade
Routine and catch-up vaccinations delivered by local teams to children and families during the brigade
Dental assessments provided through a mobile dental clinic serving remote communities
Acknowledgments
We are deeply grateful to our partners and colleagues who made this work possible. We received formal thanks from:
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Dr. Bertha Zelda, Director of DIMUSA
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Dr. Hernán Horacio Sotomayor, Coordinator, Health Network RED 02 – Moxos
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Gabriel Arias, RN, Coordinator of the TIPNIS Medical Bridgades
Their leadership and commitment were essential to the success of this initiative.
Local health teams at the end of the brigade, sharing a meal after days of coordinated service across remote TIPNIS communities