Peru's persistently high maternal mortality ratio, the second highest in South America, dramatically illustrates systemic inequities that ravage the overall society and in turn reflect systematic violations of human rights and vast disparities in the health care system, according to a new report released by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), in coordination with CARE-Peru. The bilingual PHR report Deadly Delays: Maternal Mortality in Peru, A Rights-Based Approach to Safe Motherhood states that deaths of largely rural and impoverished women are the result of systematic policy, programming, and budgeting decisions as well as societal and cultural factors.
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