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Urge President Garcia of Peru to ensure access to maternal health care

Although Peru is a middle-income country, its maternal mortality rate is the second worst in South America. Low-income, rural, and indigenous women are most at risk. Peru has been a focus of the human-right-to-maternal-health community, and President Alan Garcia has promised better equity in maternal health funding. But he has yet to fulfill that promise.

This petition will go to President Garcia.

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I am writing to you as a member of Amnesty International in the United States. I would like to share with you the concerns that I have with regards to the issue of maternal mortality in Peru, as outlined in Amnesty International’s recent report, "Fatal Flaws: Barriers to maternal health in Peru."

While Amnesty International recognizes the steps that the government of Peru has taken since the organization’s previous report in 2006, the organization believes that Peru can and must do much more to eliminate the barriers that prevent poor, rural and Indigenous women from accessing life-saving reproductive and maternal health care.

Accordingly, the organization is asking the government of Peru to co-ordinate existing government initiatives for the prevention and reduction of maternal mortality into a fully resourced and accountable plan of action which includes all relevant government ministries and local authorities. The plan must:

- Allocate adequate resources to maternal and reproductive health care, prioritizing the poorest regions with highest mortality ratios

- Systematically reduce economic, physical and cultural barriers that prevent poor rural and Indigenous women from accessing life-saving reproductive and maternal health care

- Ensure meaningful participation of women in decisions about maternal health care and in the evaluation and monitoring of current processes

- Provide accessible information to women about their sexual and reproductive rights and the right to
health

- Ensuring adequate monitoring of government policy to reduce maternal mortality, in order to
promote effective planning and accountability.

Thank you for taking the time to read this letter and I look forward to hearing how you propose to take
forward these recommendations and any response that you might have.

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