During the summer of 2012, on a visit to the Guna Yala indigenous region in northeastern Panama, we met Iranelda, a 16-year-old girl in labor whose baby was in a transverse position, requiring a cesarean section. She was ready to be transferred to Panama City to receive the necessary medical care. However, her family objected, trusting that the community’s healers, with their … [Read more...] about A Decade of Efforts to Reduce Maternal and Neonatal Mortality: The Salud Mesoamerica Initiative
Emma Margarita Iriarte
Emma Margarita Iriarte is a health specialist and Division Chief a.i. of the Health, Nutrition and Population Division at the Inter-American Development Bank. She also serves as the Executive Secretary of the Salud Mesoamerica Initiative and the Regional Malaria Elimination Initiative.