The main object of this work was to discover and to describe how much the Sikuani indigenous community knows about their rights and duties in the Health sector, as establised in the ligislation of Colombia. In order to achieve this objective it as necessary to identify some of their social characteristics, and this allowed me to enter into contact with their immediate context. Besides , I wanted to counterbalance the western vision of health with the indigenous cosmology; so it was necessary to identifiy their concepts of health and illness, and to dicover what duties and rights in the health sector they consider a necessary part of their particular codes of existence.

Throughout the investigation I could realize that these indigenous communities have an insufficient knowledge of their rights and duties in the health sector, and that there is a clear relationship between the lack of knowledge and the absence of health services. So, ome can clearly demonstrate that the right to health - as a right to receiving health services - is being constantly harmed. The State and the Health Institutions, who are responsible for this, are not yet doing waht would be necessary to make sure that this poor and marginal population can actually enjoy this right.