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REPORT FROM THE FIELD

Dying To Give Birth: Fighting Maternal Mortality In Peru

CLAUDIA JULCA, 22, a Peruvian woman from a remote Andean mountain village, looks older than her years. Small wonder: in the past six years, she’s given birth to four children, including twin girls now ten months old. For her first two deliveries she waited until going into labor before starting for help, a two-hour hike over steep, rocky mountain paths to the health center closest to her village, in the dusty valley town of San Luis. As for countless women around the world, the uncomfortable long walk is still preferable to the riskier alternative: delivering a baby at . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Maternal Deaths Worldwide

 

Addressing The Problems In Peru

 

An Example Of Success

 

Back To The Village Of San Luis

 

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