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Every day more than 20,000 children under 5 die from preventable causes including diarrhea, respiratory diseases, malnutrition, measles, and avoidable newborn death. Every year 500,000 women die from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.
Global Pediatric Alliance works in Latin America to reduce preventable maternal and infant death and improve the quality of life for women and children. Find information about our current projects under News.
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See what midwives are doing in Chiapas, Mexico
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Latest News
New materials enhance training
Thanks to support from our donors, we were recently able to purchase sophisticated and realistic childbirth education materials to use in our midwife training. Some of these materials include: colorful charts and posters illustrating bodily changes during pregnancy, a life-sized model of a human pelvis; 3-D representations of the stages of cervical dilation; and models of the fetus at various [.....]
Three concurrent training groups in Chiapas
This year our focus has been on refining our midwife training curriculum and adapting it to the culture and learning style of the indigenous midwives with whom we work. Earlier this year, our team was joined by Dení Cervantes. Trained in Mexico as a physician, Dra. Dení has used her medical knowledge and adult education experience to create culturally appropriate [.....]
In Guatemala
In 2010, thanks to generous support from key donors, GPA partnered with a local engineering organization, Pro-Agua, to implement two projects designed to supply water to more than 4,000 displaced persons – more than half of them children – in the communities of Vista Hermosa and Jalapa. In Vista Hermosa, the GPA grant was used to carry out an engineering [.....]