The last day 26, the National Statistics Institute and Informatics (INEI) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) launched the report "Socio-demographic Characteristics of Ethnic Groups in the Peruvian Amazon and the Geographic Area in which they reside," which reveals a disparity between the mortality rate among indigenous children living in the Peruvian Amazon region and the rest of the country.
The report was based on National Census 2007: Population XI, VI and II Housing Census of Indigenous Communities Peruvian Amazonia, also from 2007. Besides the differences in mortality rates among native communities in the Amazon and the rest of the country there are differences between indigenous ethnic groups.
According to the study, in 2007 there were 3,516 deaths of children, and despite not specify the cause of child mortality, the report says that the leading cause of deaths are vomiting and diarrhea, followed by pneumonia, malaria, and malaria.
According to the study, the rate of child mortality (under one year) in the native communities of the Amazon in 2007 was 49.2 per thousand live births. At the national level this rate is reduced to 18.5 per thousand live births. This phenomenon also occurs when analyzing the mortality of children under five years, since the same period the mortality rate was 64 per thousand live births in communities in the Amazon, while the rest of the country the rate was 27 deaths per thousand live births.
For the head of INEI, Anibal Sánchez, high rates of infant mortality in indigenous native communities in the Amazon are mainly due to the lack of health posts in the region. When they need medical care, Indians are forced to walk for hours, he said. He added the issue of culture and habit with those communities to resort to traditional healers rather than health centers.
Of the 731 health posts available to communities Amazon, only 98 have pipe connected to public water network, and in many cases using water directly from rivers. The study also shows that 14.9% of the indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon can not access the National Identity Document (DNI).
"What is most striking are the differences between the figures of the Amazonian communities and averages the rest of the country. We must make an effort to achieve greater social equity and equality in the country," said Esteban Caballero , UNFPA representative in Peru.
The study details how the country has 1,786 native communities with 332,975 inhabitants, 39.2% of the total are children under six years. These communities are divided into 12 linguistic families, including Family Arahuaca predominates. All that population is distributed in eleven departments, being the Amazonas department which has the largest population of indigenous Amazonian communities, followed by Loreto, Ucayali and Junin.
To read the full report: http://servindi.org/pdf/Caracteristicas_Sociodemograficas_Amazonia.pdf
With Servindi and Aidesep Information.
Translation: Daniel Barrantes - barrantes.daniel
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