The aim of this paper is to present the vulnerability context for health border. The concept of vulnerability is multidimensional and integrates individual and collective dimensions. Considers the geographical context, not only as a natural environment to facilitate or not the transmission of disease, but as a social environment where history, society and spatial organization are important. The study used the geographic method for analysis of border context from the collection and analysis of secondary data on the socio - economic context of the Brazil-French Guiana border by building indicators based on the notion of vulnerability. Malaria Data was obtained in SIVEP-Malaria to characterize the disease in the Oiapoque municipality from 2003 to 2013. Issues relating to health services and surveillance and control of malaria were obtained from interviews and field work carried out in scope of the project on malaria border. The results show that the vulnerability to malaria in the context of Brazil-French Guiana border relates to the high population mobility that characterizes this region and the difficulties of the health surveillance, as well as barriers to care to border patients, pointing to conclusions cross-border cooperation in health and sharing of information are key to reducing vulnerability and improving the results of the control and surveillance of malaria on the border.
Keywords: vulnerability, malaria, border, twin cities, Brazil, French Guiana.
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