Indigenous Midwives Fight For Reproductive Rights In Guatemala

Indigenous Midwives Fight For Reproductive Rights In Guatemala Louisa Reynolds in Guatemala City Indigenous midwives are estimated to attend almost two-thirds of the births in Guatemala, and their work has proved vital in the recognition of indigenous peoples’ medicine. But while they play a key part of the process of coordination between the networks of traditional health care and the official health system currently taking place throughout the country, the Western system has yet to...

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