Pickups Mobilize Bolivia's Maternal Healthcare | Womens eNews
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On a recent winter morning in the tiny Bolivian village of Tayasigua, Deogracia Otega sat on a wooden bench, nervously clutching her purse.
The indigenous Guarani woman with tired eyes said that it burned when she urinated and her lower abdomen ached. "I'm worried about cervical cancer," said the 45 year-old grandmother of two as she waited to consult the doctor setting up opening up shop in the one-room brick school house behind her.
Half an hour later, Otega emerged, relieved. She was in the clear for now, she said. "I didn't even know what a cervix was before the mobile health units starting arriving," she added with an embarrassed half-smile:
Otega's medical care was likely not discussed at the recent U.N. summit on the progress of the world in meeting Millennium Development Goals by the deadline year in 2015. But it could have been. Her consult is an example of what's helping South America's poorest country advance in its maternal health goals, as well improve its populations overall sexual and reproductive health.
Read the full story on Women's eNews: http://www.womensenews.org/story/reproductive-health/101228/pickups-mobilize-bol...
The indigenous Guarani woman with tired eyes said that it burned when she urinated and her lower abdomen ached. "I'm worried about cervical cancer," said the 45 year-old grandmother of two as she waited to consult the doctor setting up opening up shop in the one-room brick school house behind her.
Half an hour later, Otega emerged, relieved. She was in the clear for now, she said. "I didn't even know what a cervix was before the mobile health units starting arriving," she added with an embarrassed half-smile:
Otega's medical care was likely not discussed at the recent U.N. summit on the progress of the world in meeting Millennium Development Goals by the deadline year in 2015. But it could have been. Her consult is an example of what's helping South America's poorest country advance in its maternal health goals, as well improve its populations overall sexual and reproductive health.
Read the full story on Women's eNews: http://www.womensenews.org/story/reproductive-health/101228/pickups-mobilize-bol...
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