HC Deb 28 April 2004 vol 420 cc1085-6W
Mr. Drew

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will make a statement on Government support for reproductive health programmes in Peru between 1990 and 2000. [168173]

Hilary Benn

[holding answer 23 April 2004]During the 1990s, DFID financed five projects in Peru supporting reproductive health. These were:

  1. (a) the Multi-Sectoral Population Project (1996–2002—£2,188,000);
  2. (b) the Contraceptives Supply Project (1994–98—£1,402,000);
  3. (c) the Post-Abortion Care Project (1997–2002—£349,000);
  4. (d) the Andean Reproductive Health Initiative, co-financed with the European Commission (1998–2002—£270,000); and
  5. (e) a Small Initiatives Fund (1997–98—£109,000).

The purpose of these projects was to extend the coverage and quality of basic reproductive health and family planning services, in particular for Peru's poorer and more marginalised people. The projects helped develop the capacity of the Ministry of Health to formulate policy on and deliver these health services. The main overall objective was to lower Peru's high rates of maternal and infant mortality.

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