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Future Generations Peru Concludes a Four-Year Child Survival Project in Cusco

Posted on Fri, 2009 – 12 – 18 20:35

Lima, Peru:  A four-year child survival project of Future Generations Peru, funded by the Child Survival and Health Grants Program of the United States Agency for International Development, achieved significant improvements in 21 key maternal and child health indictors. The number of maternal deaths declined by 75% in the project area, and chronic child malnutrition declined by 9%.

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Maternal Health Task Force eBulletin announces EngenderHealth grant for Future Generations project in Peru

Posted on Fri, 2010 – 07 – 30 18:38

One of only eight new projects funded by EngenderHealth, a new Future Generations project focuses on pregnancy histories in an area that holds the highest maternal and neontal mortality rates in Latin America along with the highest levels of malnutrition in Peru. Future Generations Peru Country Director, Laura Altobelli..."will field test promising methods of reducing maternal and newborn mortality by organizing groups of pregnant women to share their pregnancy histories and experiences.

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Peru 2010 Country Fact Sheet

Authors: 
Future Generations
Date: 
May, 2010

This international country fact sheet will provide you with information on how Peru is "strengthening a national health system with communities."

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Alejandro Vargas

Project Coordinator
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Luis Espejo

Community Development Specialist
M.D.
M.P.H.
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Laura Altobelli

Country Program Director: Peru

Laura Altobelli is a public health professional specializing in international maternal child health and nutrition. Dr. Altobelli is a professor in the School of Public Health and Administration of the Peruvian Cayetano Heredia University in Lima.

Dr. P.H.
Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
1988
M.P.H.
Johns Hopkins University
1982
B.S.
University of Missouri at Columbia
1974
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Case Study - CLAS Peru

Authors: 
Laura Altobelli
Date: 
August, 2008

Altobelli, Laura C  (2008) Case Study of CLAS in Peru: Opportunity and Empowerment for Health Equity.   Prepared for Case Studies of Programmes Addressing Social Determinants of Health and Equity organized by the Priority Public Health Conditions - Knowledge Network (PPHC-KN) of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, with support from the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, WHO.  

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Peru's Interoceanic Highway

Authors: 
Fleming, Robert L. Jr.
Date: 
March, 2010

Roads are vital for overall development and the access afforded by these can be both extremely beneficial as well as hugely damaging. The road network in Peru includes the Inter-Oceanic Highway South [Carratera Interoceania Sur], a route linking the Pacific Ocean in Peru with a highway in Brazil that continues east to the Atlantic. This artery, already completed in Brazil but not totally finished in Peru, brings substantial social and environmental change to many areas.

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Health Care for the Unreached in The Andes Highlands

Cusco Child

The Cusco Region has among the highest rates of maternal-child mortality and chronic child malnutrition in Peru. Although the government has established primary health care facilities in these highlands, the indigenous communities do not use them due to distance and poverty combined with language and cultural barriers.

Future Generations makes 28 primary health care facilities more effective by transforming them through community participation and stronger linkages with local government.

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Cusco Farmer and Child

Cusco Farmer and Child

High in the Andes Mountains overlooking Cusco, a farmer carries his child in a traditional k'eperina cloth sack on his back.

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