IHSLAC Profiles - Country in Focus: Bolivia

In Bolivia, the initiative focuses on two of the nine departments, La Paz and Oruro, and reaches ten municipalities. Actions include, but are not limited to the development of community health, the promotion and incorporation of traditional health practices in the national health system, the strengthening of health information systems, the development of sexual and reproductive health capacities and the prevention and treatment of anemia in women and children.


Carla and her story 

Carla Botetano Yucra lives with her three children and her mother in the city of El Alto, in Bolivia, and is engaged in commerce. She was pregnant with her fourth baby when she began to bleed and feel pain.  READ MORE