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style="font-size: 16px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3947b2"><b>The
MIT Western Hemisphere Project presents</b></font></span></font></div>
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class="Apple-style-span" size="7"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 36px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#e30815"><b>"At
Higher Risk"</b></font></span></font></div>
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class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 16px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#e30815"><b>a</b></font></span></font><span
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class="Apple-style-span" color="#e30815"><b>nd following-up discussion
by Professor Dolores Acevedo-Garcia</b></font></span></span></div>
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class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 16px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#4454b2"><b>Co-sponsored
by the Latino Cultural Center, MIT Traditional Medicine Society, and
MIT Amnesty International</b></font></span></font></div>
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class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><font class="Apple-style-span"
color="#2437b2"><b>Time: December 2nd, 7:30pm</b></font></font></div>
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color="#2437b2"><b>Location: 6-120</b></font></font></div>
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size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"><b><i>At
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class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 16px;">Just as the rivers of the Andes mountains
twist and coil in a curious maze, so does the grave situation of
Peruvian women's health care</span></font></b></div>
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class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 16px;">Within the past decade, the Andean women in
Peru have faced a massive sterilization campaign, exorbitant fines for
homebirths, remnants of a deadly civil war, and the second highest
maternal death rate in South America. Yet, as the have for centuries,
the Quechua and Aymara people are fighting to preserve their
traditions, beliefs and integrity</span></font></b></div>
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<div style="text-align: center; direction: rtl;"><b><font
class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 16px;">Through the compelling story of one Andean
woman, Judyth Aguero Vega, we see the horrors and triumphs of Peru's
volatile health care situation. Inside a small adobe kitchen, Elsa
Romero-Murrado, a midwife in the rural town of Ccapacmarca, takes us
through rarely seen birthing ceremonies. Down the dirt path, her
neighbor Judyth, 27, shares her fears of birth as she bestrides the
lines of modern and traditional medicine. Their town sits seven hours
from the nearest hospital. Cerlia Mendoza, president of the Mother's
Club, testifies to a list of 200 women who were bribed by doctors to
undergo sterilization</span></font></b></div>
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class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 16px;">At Higher Risk</span></font></b></i><b><font
class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 16px;"> winds through the beauty of Andean people's
spirituality and their mysterious gift of self-preservation throughout
centuries of adversity. As part of Fullbright grant, the crew spent one
year researching and filming in some of the most inaccessible regions
of the Peruvian Andes This is one of the most intimate looks at the
reproductive health care yet filmed in a developing country</span></font></b></div>
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class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 20px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1c24e3"><b>Professor
Acevedo</b></font></span></font></div>
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<div style="text-align: center; direction: rtl;"><font
class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 16px;"><b>Professor Dolores Acevedo-Garcia is a
Martin Luther King Jr. visiting professor at MIT for this academic
year, and an associated professor at Harvard school of Public Health.
She has a doctoral degree in public policy and demography; and her
research interests include the effect of social determinants (e.g.
residential segregation, immigrant integration) on health disparities,
especially along racial and ethnic lines, and the role of non-health
policies (e.g. housing policies, immigrant policies) in reducing those
disparities</b></span></font></div>
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