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Peru
Sidelining sanitation
Issue Date: Apr 30, 1993
BURDENED by repayment of its enormous external debt, the Peruvian government has been forced to cut down its budgeting for health and sanitation facilities, even though a cholera epidemic claimed about 4,000 lives there in 1991 and diarrhoeal diseases kill about 17,000 children each year in the country.
The deteriorating living conditions in Peru's towns and villages is said to be the result of the ineffectiveness of adjustment programmes applied since the mid-1970s.
Confronting cholera in Peru
Issue Date: Aug 31, 1992
GLOBAL attention was drawn to the cholera bacteria (Vibrio cholerae) following the epidemic raging in Peru since January 1991, which claimed as many as 4,000 lives and affected another three lakh lives in the country. In all, till early July 1992, 5.3 lakh cases of cholera and 4,700 deaths were reported from 19 countries in South and Central America.
