Health Ministry: approximately 18 of 1,000 Peruvian children die before turning one week old

Though still alarmingly high, Peru’s neonatal mortality rate has decreased from 23 per 1,000 live births in 2000 to 18 per 1,000 live births in 2009, reported Peru’s Health Ministry on Wednesday. According to UNICEF, despite significant progress made in health and nutrition during the last decades, a large proportion of Peru’s population is economically, [...]

Peruvian Red Cross ships more than 50 tons of warm clothing and blankets to areas affected by extreme cold

As part of its “Together against the Cold” Campaign, the Peruvian Red Cross has shipped more than 50 tons of warm clothing, blankets and medicine to 11,290 families throughout Peru’s southern Altiplano, including Cuzco, Puno, Apurimac and Huancavelica. The blankets and clothing were shipped by private companies, and with the financial and technical support of [...]

54 children dead in Puno because of extreme cold front

Climate change continues to wreck havoc in Peru’s southern Altiplano, where the arrival of freezing temperatures since March — almost three months earlier than usual — have killed more than 237 children. The extreme cold – which has brought snow, hail, low temperatures and strong winds – has claimed the lives of 237 children so [...]

UNICEF: Peru has made “enormous progress” in reducing child deaths and adapting maternity services to rural cultures

In the 2009 edition of its flagship publication, The State of the World’s Children, UNICEF addresses maternal mortality – which it qualifies as one of the most intractable problems for development work – and points to successful strategies developed by Peru to reduce child deaths and to adapt maternity services to rural cultures. “Peru, a [...]