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Due to the fast and growing population aging, with an increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, Latin America will face, in the coming decades, a pandemic of hip fractures and other fragility fractures. However, the region’s current health systems are not yet adequately prepared to deal with this important challenge.

The Fragility Fracture Network (FFN) is a global organization, which aims to create a multidisciplinary network of specialists to improve the treatment and secondary prevention of fragility fractures, discussing ways to implement a more appropriate and humanized care path for fractures for fragility.