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Health in Paraguay

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108:(GDP) in 2000, nearly triple the 0.6 percent of GDP spent in 1989. But during the past decade, improvement in health care has slowed. Paraguay spends less per capita (US$ 13−20 per year) than most other Latin American countries. A 2001 survey indicated that 27 percent of the population still had no access to medical care, public or private. Private health insurance is very limited, with pre-paid plans making up only 11 percent of private expenditures on health care. Thus, most of the money spent on private health care (about 88 percent) is on a fee-for-service basis, effectively preventing the poor population from seeing private doctors. According to recent estimates, Paraguay has about 117 30: 38: 634: 132:
In regards to the right to health amongst the adult population, the country achieves 88.1% of what is expected based on the nation's level of income. Paraguay falls into the "bad" category when evaluating the right to reproductive health because the nation is fulfilling only 83.0% of what the nation is expected to achieve based on the resources (income) it has available.
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The Human Rights Measurement Initiative finds that Paraguay is fulfilling 88.5% of what it should be fulfilling for the right to health based on its level of income. When looking at the right to health with respect to children, Paraguay achieves 94.5% of what is expected based on its current income.
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cautions that although the prevalence rate in Paraguay remains low, HIV/AIDS is increasing among stigmatized population groups. Transmission of the virus is primarily through sexual contact. According to 2004 estimates, nearly 15,000 Paraguayans were infected with HIV/AIDS.
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Health care funding from the national government increased gradually throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Spending on health care rose to 1.7 percent of the
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rate of 29.5 deaths per 1,000 children, ranking it behind
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Index

Healthcare in Paraguay


health indicators
median
South American
Paraguay
child mortality
Argentina
Colombia
Uruguay
Brazil
Bolivia
Chagas' disease
malnutrition
sanitation
gross domestic product
physicians
nurses
human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome
United Nations
Abortion in Paraguay
List of hospitals in Paraguay
Water supply and sanitation in Paraguay



Paraguay country profile
Library of Congress
Federal Research Division

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