Anne Foster Quotations

There are several levels of problems, ... The status of women is a big issue. The long-term solution is education for women that I can't provide -- that's a 100-year plan.

They are afraid to walk four hours on a footpath to a clinic and maybe find nobody there, or they will try to get to a regional hospital and, because of the distance, there will be a critical delay in care, ... They prefer home delivery. The risk of dying is very invisible.

The last thing we want to do is impose our world view, ... But we help them to think through new, creative ways to overcome geographic or bureaucratic barriers to care.

In Guatemala, there is a large indigent community, ... That's why you see higher death rates.

In Latin America, there tend to be enough rural health centers and enough hospitals, but there aren't enough rural health centers providing basic emergency care, ... It's a problem of distribution.