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Le Matin – Facebook confirms working on a connected watch

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Facebook confirmed on Wednesday that it is working on a connected watch that could one day be linked to augmented reality glasses being designed by the social media giant.

Facebook Reality Labs is looking for ways to make these glasses more useful, Andrew Bosworth, a head of the unit, said in a tweet in response to information from The Verge that Facebook wants to unveil a smartwatch next year.

According to the specialist site, the watch will be equipped with cameras and will integrate with Facebook applications such as Instagram, its image-centric network. “We said we want augmented reality glasses that are really useful – we’re investing in technologies that will make this interaction more natural and intuitive,” wrote Andrew Bosworth.

“We’ll say more when we’re ready,” he added. “And just like with our eyewear work, we’ll be consulting with third-party experts to help us get it right.”

Facebook had made public its plan to launch glasses connected to smartphones this year as part of an alliance with the optical giant EssilorLuxottica.

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“Without integral well-being, no one can live, work, be an entrepreneur and, in general, be fully happy”

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We speak with Eva Hernández, responsible for Natural health, Cartagena company dedicated to the search for the well-being of its clients through traditional Chinese therapy. We review her professional career with her and talk about feelings, emotions or her relationship with the CREA Networking Association.

What services does Eva Hernández Salud Natural offer?

At Eva Hernández Salud Natural we help people who want to feel better physically, emotionally and mentally in a natural way, through traditional Chinese therapy. Through this we analyze how they are, what are their symptoms, ailments, their origin, as well as the relationship that these may have with their mental and emotional state, and with tools such as herbal medicine, acupuncture, food and flowers. At Bach we help them gain in well-being and feel well globally.

What is the most common customer prototype you serve?

The people who most come to our center are people who are aware of respect for their body, their life, and the environment in turn, and who understand that taking care of themselves in a natural way is to go in favor of life, of nature Not only to cover or mask symptoms, but to understand why they have appeared in their lives, and with our help they can return to a state of general well-being.

How did Eva Hernández get here? What study? Have you always wanted to dedicate yourself to this sector?

This sector has always been vocational for me. Through my family career I began studying veterinary medicine, and later I specialized in traditional Chinese medicine for pets, helping them in an integrative way both with Western medicine (chemical medicines) and with natural medicine (acupuncture, medicinal plants, Bach flowers).

Subsequently, I trained as a senior technician in traditional Chinese medicine for people, 4 years of training that culminated in a stay at the No. 1 hospital in Guangzhou in China where I could learn first-hand how to help people in a much more innocuous and natural way. .

To what extent can we get to know ourselves and help ourselves from traditional Chinese therapy?

This question is very interesting, because I always like to explain that learning to recognize the signs that our body shows us is learning to take care of ourselves.Within the recognition that I carry out on the first visit, we always explore the language, because the language is a reflection of his body, and I take advantage of that moment so that the person understands why, for example, he has a thick whitish layer always on top of the tongue, or why his tongue is very red, or has cracks, or dental marks … he understands in the context of the rest of his symptoms, and he learns every day when he can look at his tongue at home to know, for example, which foods would be best for him to eat that day and which ones he should avoid.

How can emotions affect our state of physical well-being? And vice versa?

Very much, and this I would like to explain to you with a metaphor. Let’s imagine that our physical body is a car. Western medicine is wonderful to repair any damage to that car, the broken part almost certainly can be replaced, and also as many times as necessary. But now, if that car is constantly needing to be fixed, because it keeps crashing, something does not seem to be going right, right? We are forgetting that that car has a driver, which would be your emotions and your mind, and if they are not right, that driver will come back again and again to crash that car.

That is why the mutual relationship between these three spheres of a person’s life must always be taken into account in a global way, what we call holistically, that will be the only way in which driver and car will have a security and quality in your journey throughout your life.

What advice would you give someone in doubt about the type of services you offer, such as traditional Chinese therapy?

First of all, I would tell you to be calm, and that I am the first to want to solve all the doubts that may arise. Traditional Chinese therapy is very old and unknown to many in the West. The help that we are going to provide you after studying your case in detail from traditional Chinese therapy will always be after a first visit of almost two hours, where we will ask you about everything in your life, as much as your appetite, thirst, urine, feces, pain, menstruation, memory, concentration, sleep, emotional state, stress level etc., as well as from your past, even family history.

Later we analyze the pulse in both wrists, we explore the tongue, we look at the iris and we explore some reflex areas in the feet, all this will provide us with a large amount of information with which we establish and explain to the person what is happening from traditional therapy china, and how we are going to help you solve it.

Are there still too many reluctance to speak freely about our feelings and emotions?

They are less and less the truth, and more since this last year that has affected so many people on a mental and emotional level. It is very important to be aware of how we are emotionally and mentally and to have the will and strength to improve it. We always work in an integrated way with health professionals both in the field of psychology and psychiatry and general medicine, since in many cases integrative treatment is required to help the person in a global way.

How can a company in your sector help a group like the CREA Association?

Often in networking groups we only see companies from more well-known sectors such as construction, travel, insurance or real estate, but it is true that there are more and more companies from the health and para-sanitary sectors, so necessary today, not only at the moment so delicate at the global health level that we live, but because without integral well-being no person can live, work, be an entrepreneur and, in general, be fully happy.

Are Associations like CREA more important than ever at a time like the one we live in at a social and work level?

That’s right, says that famous phrase that “unity is strength”, and now more than ever we are verifying it. Not only because of the crisis, but because the world of work is not easy in general, and belonging to CREA opens doors for you, helps you to give the best of yourself and be in constant personal and work improvement, and that is proven by seeing how more and more companies want to be part of our group.

What benefits has CREA brought you on a personal and business level?

Well, many the truth. Sharing your personal and work growth with more companies, the constant help of your colleagues to improve, to receive more clients, as well as the satisfaction of being able to also send clients to them, makes belonging to this association one of the best decisions to make. business level that I have taken.

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For the lawyer, in this country working is not a right

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I have sent emails to the governor Vidal At the time, to the Minister of Justice, to the La Plata Bar Association on more than one occasion, I have tried to distribute it through the labor courts and nobody listens to me. Something quite ambivalent to be a Justice worker.

I am a labor lawyer, plaintiff, specialized in social law (UNLP). Exercising the liberal profession, I did not even cover the living and mobile minimum wage. They even charge me for the air I breathe, the AFIP, the CALP and the daily expenses and I do not charge until the actor charges, so I charge easily every four or five years hopefully and, because it is work, I cannot charge anything Before, but they charge me for everything, in addition to the well-known difference between harm to an ordinary person and a worker, given that litigating in defense of workers is an arduous task attentive to the fact that we have the most backward and retrograde legislation in the world.

I have gone through the most varied disrespects on the part of court personnel and I continue to do so.

Since this blessed pandemic, I can affirm that I have not charged a fee for a year and a half, but they charge me even the air I breathe, added to the fact that exercising the liberal profession under these conditions is more than unhealthy and nothing is valued but absolutely nothing of what we do, especially when the complaint comes from an “NN” who does not have a judicial family, is not famous or appears on television.

The year 2020 showed – as never before – all the shortcomings of the judiciary, both at the national and provincial levels.

The virtual system could not be a substitute for presence, neither in its implementation, nor in the building or technological infrastructure. All the positive foundations of its implementation are a lie and in reality they do not occur, since not only does the system work when it wants to; As the people who work are different, one gets to do a trade six times; or you send writings and they “forget” to do what they asked for; you want to talk about something and they don’t receive you for another month. All agencies have different criteria, some ask that the court or court send the official letter, another that one do it, another that is signed by one, another that the agency signs it and thus with five hundred different criteria that drive you crazy, when before it was to print three copies and with the seal of the court or court it was already there. One took it and ready.

Remote work does not happen, because they do not work: they are three months to dispatch an order, they are not appointing audiences two years ago, in addition to the fact that the ones that were designated were suspended since March 2020. The deadlines do not run for them. Yes, because they notify you when the letter arrives but they don’t take into account if the horrendous system works, if it takes what you are trying to do or not, if the person is sick or not. Attention many colleagues have been infected with COVID and there is no answer, all essential activities for our work.

Above all, there is no security of anything because in this context even the judiciary is at risk, from the moment the national constitution is criticized, all for not deciding how they want.

The circumstances particularly harm the processing of urgent processes, the exercise of adequate criminal defense, the defense of the credit of the most vulnerable and the protection of credit in general, thereby compromising access to justice.

These facts, added to the inflationary reality, erode the credits that provincial judgments subject to passive or pure rates, distorting the function of keeping the creditor’s assets intact and violating the right of defense, the right to equality before the law and the right to property.

As a labor lawyer for the worker, I see as a lack of respect for my work that a person regulates me after five years of trial 2 thousand pesos, which does not serve me today or to pay for the water in my house, not being able to claim anywhere Because of how the procedure is and that no one listens to me, I don’t know if it is because I am a woman, a young person or a lawyer of the worker.

I have cases of clients who have been disabled and do not want to pay them, people who have died attentive to judicial delays, the bureaucracy of having to try the most well-known things and even then the judges do not see it. Why? Because they live in a parallel reality and receive a fixed salary, whether or not they do something and people pass by, it is a number, a file, nobody sees the person behind the lawsuit, the family. But of course, as I am the daughter of laburantes, no one listens to me or pays attention to what I am trying to make known.

And people believe that being a lawyer generates money like little machines, seeing those stereotypes that appear in unpresentable program for the principles of a lawyer.

Our clients believe the same, they do not know what this new system is, they do not know that all public bodies have been closed since March 2020 and it does not provide any attention, they do not know that we can not even go and complain, because before before a ridiculous office one would go and see face to face who made or decided nonsense, but now we don’t even have the right to complain.

The system does not work or works badly, it went back thousands of steps because this digitization is a lack of respect for our work, it is a daily wear and tear that makes one want to stop doing this, throwing everything away, because it was an expense that did not improve anything. .

Having to adapt and bear that there is no unanimous criterion and having to be at the disposal of the person who sees what one sends, is a constant teasing of those who try to work and defend a right.

From the moment that Justice is not an essential service we are in the oven, but they continue to charge even without providing services, they make us digitize huge demands and documentary in a system that takes you 20 megabytes, therefore these ten hours scanning or taking photos to that later they do not let you upload or do not accept them, and one explains this but nobody listens to it and it is one’s obligation.

And nobody says anything. We are the workers who are suffering from not having a fixed salary and, being a labor lawyer, I get paid every five years and even then I can’t even claim what is legally required because it seems like a lot to the one who dispatches it.

But nobody listens or cares because most never practiced the profession and were always behind a counter or in an administrative position. Those are the ones who say that Justice works, those are the ones who disrespect us. Overall, the passing of the years affects us and our clients. I have seen people cry in court over the mistreatment they received.

What delays the causes is not the people, but the simple fact that they have a fixed salary, whether or not they do something. And except for the judges, secretaries and some legal assistant, they are lawyers. The rest are people who derive their position by kinship, friendship or work for years in that place. Few lawyers. Specialist lawyers none. Or they are received after years of working there to aspire to a better position, and I can attest to that attentively I worked as an intern in a labor court in La Plata.

Being a labor lawyer from La Plata and a plaintiff, is a very chance, attentive that not only the regulations are minimal, the procedural times are long, the criteria change but, as I said above, no one sees the person behind the lawsuits, their families and one who works, because that is what I try to do, work and live from my work.

And in this country working is not a right.

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[XUA-00] – DAY PRODUCTION CREW-Lima, Ohio and Lima

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Job Description

DAY PRODUCTION CREW – Lima, Ohio

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For Magda Ayala it is a priority to work for the health and well-being of the neighbors

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The mayor of Barranqueras, Magda Ayala, and the municipal Sports coordinator, Celso Freyre, participated in a meeting with the president of the Chaco Sports Institute, Osvaldo Pérez Cuevas, and with the coordinator of this provincial body.

The reason for the meeting was planning public policies that guarantee the promotion and safe return of physical activity in the port town. Indeed, although some sports disciplines could be resumed, most of them are still affected by isolation and biosecurity measures.

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“We work on different issues, but always with the priority placed on the health and well-being of our neighbors.. Today, this means considering both the motivation of Barranquereños to carry out physical activity and the necessary protocols so that it can be practiced safely ”, explained Ayala.

Finally, he thanked for the meeting: “it is always a great pleasure to work together with the provincial government institutions. Our management understands that teamwork is essential, and more so now in times when we need everyone’s effort and drive to get ahead taking care of each Chaco ”.

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Carlos Slim proposes to work 11 hours a day due to economic crisis | Coronavirus today – Business – Economy

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Mexican businessman Carlos Slim, one of the richest men in the world, said that the new coronavirus pandemic has caused an economic crisis that has raised unemployment levels.

Because of this, Slim believes that it is necessary to face new challenges, propose changes to combat the problem and save companies from bankruptcy. For this, he proposed working days of 11 hours, but three days a week and raising the retirement age to 75 years.

The proposal was made during the 19th edition of the Cede Directors’ Congress. There he also commented that “this ‘invisible virus’, which has put the whole world in check, it has generated an unusual economic and social situation that will lead to a new normal, with many they will no longer be the same ”.

(Read on: Colombia, with the highest unemployment rate among OECD countries).

And he added: “There is a civilizational change from industrial society to a new technological civilization that has very positive effects.”

(Also read: Panaca was admitted to corporate salvage).

Slim also emphasized that “it is important to increase production, competitiveness, control expenses, minimize investment in non-strategic acts, reinvest money and enhance business creativity.”

It is important to increase production, competitiveness, control expenses, minimize investment in non-strategic acts, reinvest money

(Also: A turbulent future / Analysis by Ricardo Ávila).

This is not the first time that the employer has launched this type of proposal (that of increasing the working day). In 2015, he proposed 33 hours of work per week divided into three days. The proposal was made after a stage known as the financial crash of 2008, in which it collapsed the fourth largest investment bank in the United States and sparked a global economic crisis.

(You may be interested: The axes of the change of course that the IDB sees for Latin America).

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Spanish telcos want to know if there will be limitations on Huawei in 5G | Companies

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The Spanish operators are still pending the evolution of the Huawei case, the axis of the disputes between the US and China. In recent days, there has been talk again of possible limitations to the Chinese manufacturer of telecommunications equipment in neighboring countries such as France or the United Kingdom and, in this context, the telecommunications companies want to know if Spain is going to establish some type of barrier or limitation for contract with Huawei.

Industry sources believe that a government position would be necessary, since Huawei is a main player in its infrastructures, and any limitation that is established could have a significant impact on its investment plans, especially those related to the deployment of 5G , which must be accelerated from 2021, once the 700 MHz spectrum is awarded. In general terms, investment in 5G will exceed 5 billion euros.

In his opinion, it is necessary that there be legal and legislative certainty, to know if there will be a maximum percentage of investment in Huawei equipment or if it will be limited in the part core and not in the radio infrastructure, among other options. Some operators fear that they may approve an investment in the manufacturer’s equipment, and subsequently set an obligation not to exceed a certain figure.

The Government has not officially ruled, although it is working on the issue. In 2019, a public consultation was issued to prepare a bill that would reflect the national position regarding cybersecurity in 5G networks and the measures to be taken in relation to high-risk providers. Currently work is being done on the preparation of said draft law, although it is not closed. According to legal sources, the possible approval of specific standards is being studied with each measure they approve, which could be different in rank. For example, one could be the obligation to apply a quality certification to suppliers, which would be through a ministerial order.

Last week, the National Cybersecurity Council updated the steps already taken to guarantee the security of 5G networks in Spain. Among others, a 5G risk analysis has been prepared at the national level, and the security measures of the toolbox published by the European Commission have been identified (Toolbox), which have been implemented at the national level.

The National Cryptological Center (CCN), dependent on the CNI, has specified the scope, content and meaning of the security certifications issued by the CCN using the ISO-15408 standard. For this reason, it has warned that, with the certification of this product, specifically of said brand, in no case can an endorsement of the security of Huawei technology be inferred.

By country, France was the last to address restrictions on the use of Huawei equipment for 5G. After the approval of the law on mobile resources last summer, in an interview with The echoes, the director general of the National Agency for Information Systems Security, Guillaume Poupard, explained that they are going to limit the use of Huawei equipment to telecoms that operate in France. Poupard’s vision in this regard is that the development of 5G should be carried out under economic conditions acceptable to operators and sovereigns, which do not make France dependent on a specific company or country. Thus, France’s position is to encourage the use of Ericsson or Nokia equipment.

Other countries

In the United Kingdom, one of the main allies of the United States, the Government has decided to reduce the presence of Huawei equipment in 5G networks, and a greater restriction is not ruled out.

In Germany, Huawei has commercial agreements with all operators, such as Deutsche Telekom, although Telefónica chose Ericsson for its network core. At the beginning of the year, the head of the German Competition Agency, Jochen Homann, announced that Huawei would not be excluded from the process for the creation of the new 5G network. Other voices from Angela Merkel’s government have shown their disappointment that Huawei is excluded from the market, such as the German Interior Minister, Horst Seehofer. The minister said that without Huawei’s involvement, the construction of the network would be delayed between five and ten years. In any case, the government will not make a final decision until September.

Belgium, for its part, will follow in the lead of the United Kingdom and will impose new restrictions to limit the use of suppliers of Chinese origin. In turn, Italy has agreed to allow Huawei to compete on full equality with Ericsson and Nokia. China has become a very powerful trading partner, especially due to the transalpine country’s accession to the New Silk Road.

Brussels position

Risks. In this sense, this year, the European Commission established a series of parameters to mitigate cybersecurity risks in all 5G networks that will be installed in the territory of the EU. According to industry sources, the objective of these parameters is the creation of a robust framework of measures that ensure a high level of cybersecurity in all Member States of the Union. This decision requires regulatory predictability that encourages investment and commitment to suppliers that are accepted by the EU and by the regulators of the member states, as well as by their governments.

Measurements. Among the measures approved in January is the limitation of the operations of high-risk providers, those that come from a non-member state and that do not meet the security criteria.

Breton. In Europe the decision has not been taken and it has not been regulated in this regard. Only Thierry Breton, Commissioner for the Internal Market and head of Industry and Telecommunications of the EC, has recommended to the operators a diversification of suppliers, which is not a regulation in order to provide security that encourages long-term investment.

Business. Against Huawei, Europe has two key players in the area of ​​networks, Ericsson and Nokia, owner of the former Alcatel-Lucent.

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Suppressing emotions: the key for an Argentine doctor to work in humanitarian aid | Future Planet

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“I prefer to repress than to depress”, is one of the bedside phrases of the Argentine doctor Marcelo Fernández. In times of health crisis like the one we are experiencing now, the 50-year-old man tries to contain his emotions in order to work better, keep a cool head and make good decisions. He serves as the chief of mission for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) for Mexico and Central America. There he coordinates the operations to attend to patients, especially migrants with covid-19.

22 years ago, Fernández left the Argentine city of Rosario to begin his journey in various humanitarian projects. His first mission was in San Lucas de Sacatepéquez, in Guatemala, with MSF. There he dedicated himself to treating people with HIV. In 2001, he moved on to the first projects the NGO opened in Malawi and Cambodia.

The coronavirus pandemic found him in Mexico, where he has lived for four years. “When I arrived in Mexico, I was focused on caring for victims of violence, which is an epidemic in this region,” he says. The team that works alongside him offers medical and psychosocial assistance to migrants and refugees in Tamaulipas, considered one of the states with the highest levels of danger in the country. Most of the health problems of those who undertake the dangerous migratory route from Central America to the United States have to do with travel: respiratory problems, skin infections, foot injuries and injuries from falls. They also meet people who suffered some kind of physical, sexual or psychological violence.

Thousands of displaced persons from the Northern Triangle of Central America — El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras — pass through Mexico every year; most of them flee violence and poverty in their countries of origin. “Although the borders of the United States at this moment are totally closed, it is not possible to prevent a person from migrating. No matter how much they put up administrative barriers or walls, when people want to go from one place to another, they will always achieve it, by any means. I saw that in all the countries where I had to work, ”he says.

According to Fernández, the United States Government’s Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP) and the lack of humanitarian assistance from the Mexican government endanger the lives of asylum seekers in the State of Tamaulipas. The MPP forces migrants to wait in Mexico while their cases are processed, staying in cities like Matamoros, where poor infrastructure and high levels of violence, including kidnapping, extortion, armed robbery, and sexual violence, they put their health and lives at risk. “When I see a mother or father who brings their children, who were victims of rape, that leaves a mark on me on a personal level. They are very complex realities ”, says the doctor.

What comes to us is the medical problem, but we also get involved in social problems

Since the MPP was implemented in Matamoros in August 2019, MSF has witnessed the forced return of 100 asylum seekers a day. Some spend the night in the open in tents, exposed to the contexts of violence that trigger clashes between organized crime groups. “It is unacceptable that vulnerable beings, women, children, families and men are forced to live in risky conditions due to the violence of criminal networks and also to the inhumane treatment to which they are subjected by Mexico and the United States,” warns the doctor.

To respond to this context of health crisis, in coordination with the hospital system of the border cities of Reynosa and Matamoros, MSF opened two covid-19 treatment centers in the gymnasiums of the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas campuses, to serve severe patients in order to avoid an overflow in health services. The two specially adapted structures have 20 beds and the same number of oxygen concentrators. Inside the Reynosa covid-19 center, an isolation area was contemplated for people returned from the United States suspected of having the virus. In this space, patients are isolated until the possible contagion is ruled out or their treatment ends. In turn, the Matamoros care center has 20 more beds to treat mild cases, but that do not have the option of isolation at home.

“In normal times we are 200 people working on different projects in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. At the moment, today we are 430. In a super fast period we recruited more than 200 people, especially in Mexico. In the team we are doctors, hygienists, nurses, orderlies, security guards and administrative staff. As the transmission of the virus is community, we already had cases within the staff. Inside the health center they are protected, which is why they are more likely to be infected in the community. I go to the centers every two weeks. When personnel are needed to stand watch, I am present. A project coordinator needs a break next week and I will cover for him so he can be absent. I cannot travel to Guatemala and Honduras due to quarantine. I have virtual contacts with these teams ”, he says.

The Argentine doctor has not seen his children, who live in France, for six months. He says: “I can only communicate with them virtually. Before the pandemic, I would visit them every two months. ” This is one of the hardest changes in your new routine. “My choice was to stay here and continue doing what I know how to do. I usually repress the emotions related to the family and personal to try to give quality work. At some point that is going to hatch, but for now I keep putting it under the rug. Every day I get up and drink my coffee with the pleasure of knowing that I provide a service to a population that needs it. I love what I do. Beyond the suffering I see, I have tools that can alleviate the ailment of these people ”.

Health promotion activities in the migrant and asylum seeker camp in Matamoros. Arlette Blanco (MSF)

Working with uncertainty is not new for Fernández. It’s something he got used to working in the humanitarian world. “I am always wondering: Will I have the means to give a treatment? Will I be able to do that surgery? Will I be able to give access to quality services to all patients? The pandemic adds one more uncertainty to those that we already live in our day to day. As a humanitarian aid professional, I am prepared to resolve emergency situations such as an armed conflict, an epidemic, a hunger crisis ”, he reflects.

For 20 years, Fernández dedicated himself to the care of patients with HIV and initially his objectives were to generate access to medicines, to make governments pay attention to the problem and to make treatment less expensive. “When I started this fight, the treatment cost $ 1,000 per patient per month. That is, about $ 12,000 per year. It was impossible for any patient to have access. At the end of the 1990s, a campaign was made with civil society organizations to give people access and lower prices. From all this experience I learned that you should never lower your arms, ”he recalls.

Since the covid-19 centers opened on the northern border of Mexico, more than 150 people have passed through there. MSF predicted that the migrant population would not have access to medical services and created the infrastructure to protect this population, which is often discriminated against in health centers. “On the northern border the hospitals are overflowing and we were able to confirm that they do not prioritize the care of a migrant person. This population comes to our centers because they did not receive medical services elsewhere. If this center were not open, I think they would be left without attention ”, says Fernández.

Although the MSF mission chief for Mexico and Central America is also a migrant and identifies with his patients in some ways, he admits that he was fortunate to leave because he wanted to. “I consider myself a hormonal exile, I left because I fell in love with a person. It was a personal decision, it was not an economic or political issue. In the last 20 years I have seen many people fleeing conflicts and one feels empathy for the suffering of those people who suffer violence, discrimination, political persecution or economic problems in their countries. What comes to us is the medical problem, but we also get involved in social problems. Still, I try not to get emotionally involved because otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to do this job. Many times one sees so many needs in such difficult contexts that in the end you feel that the possibility of intervention is very limited. Keeping a cool head allows you to make difficult decisions ”, he concludes.

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