Lack of basic medical care makes life pretty miserable. Things that are easily treated like
fistula guarantee a life of misery for women. Don't think for a moment these people aren't riddled with any number of parasitic and other diseases. I can understand why people want them to remain "pure" and untouched in their jungle home but I can't romanticize their squalid existence, these are people who die from dental abscesses and broken bones. I don't buy into the noble savage myth but at the same time primitive peoples don't do well when exposed to the modern world either, and these folks still have scabs on their ass where tails used to be.