Guatemala has one of the highest inequality rates in Latin America. In 2014, poverty rose to 59.3 percent. Of all people living in poverty in the country, 52 percent are indigenous. The country has also one the highest rate of maternal mortality in the region, with 115 per 100,000 live births. Such alarming figures can be attributed to the extremely low levels of formal prenatal and delivery care, especially in rural areas. A pilot training program for indigenous midwives (comadronas), aimed at strengthening their capacity to identify women with high-risk pregnancies and to refer them to hospitals, was developed and implemented in seven towns around Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. Read more here: http://bit.ly/2o0FLq9
