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Pickups Mobilize Bolivia’s Maternal Healthcare

By Jean Friedman-Rudovsky ● Health & Science ● December 28, 2010

Mobile health units are rolling clinicians into remote parts of Bolivia and helping to lower one of the world’s worst rates of maternal mortality. Reporting costs for this story were partially funded by International Planned Parenthood.

Bolivia Pushes Birthing Practices Closer to Home

By Jean Friedman-Rudovsky ● Health & Science ● November 30, 2008

Bolivia has stemmed maternal and infant death rates by providing free medical care during pregnancy and childbirth. But many women prefer to labor at home rather than take free care at hospitals that comes packaged with birthing horror stories.

Bolivia’s ‘Bad Births’ Sit on Political Sidelines

By Jean Friedman-Rudovsky ● Politics ● January 15, 2008

The leftist trend in Latin America is going hand in hand with a reversal of abortion rights. In anti-corporate Bolivia, for instance, a push last month to constitutionally broaden a ban was blocked only at the last minute.

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Pickups Mobilize Bolivia’s Maternal Healthcare

Bolivia Pushes Birthing Practices Closer to Home

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