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Peru Addresses Indigenous Women's Reproductive Rights

By Karim Velasco, RH Reality Check, Latin America

May 22, 2008 - 8:00am

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For indigenous women in the Andean and Amazonian areas of Peru, giving birth at health care facilities, in the presence of strangers and lying down, is unbearable. New standards in health care delivery better respect their rights and traditions.

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