For instance, Indigenous women in Mexico face barriers to healthcare access (both general and reproductive) stemming from poverty, lack of education, and geographic isolation.
[7][9] Along with lack of access as a form of discriminatory treatment, reproductive healthcare that is uneven in quality can lead to poor health outcomes for patients seeking maternal care.
[9] For women, several programs exist, like the “Programa para el Adelanto, Bienestar e Igualdad de las Mujeres (PROABUM)", enhancing women’s rights through financial aid and other forms of support, with a particular focus on reproductive health, leadership development, empowerment, and institutional strengthening.
Through a network of Centros para el Desarrollo de las Mujeres (CDM) located in 11 towns in Mexico City, PROABIM provides services like healthcare access initiatives, economic empowerment programs, and legal consultation.
Based on these connections, their services are structured, focusing on strengthening pre-existing organizations and promoting their call for equality in fields such as healthcare.
[11] This program contributes to solving socio-economic and gender-based issues through financially advocating for organizations dedicated to confronting these challenges.
On an institutional level, it supports organizations pushing for political reform that will ultimately make healthcare resources more easily accessible.
According to a study by IFPRI, the International Food Policy Research Institute, Prospera has positively improved factors such as school enrollment, health appointment attendance, and children’s nutrition.
[15] An evolution of the Oportunidades social welfare programme has, in its various forms, given conditional cash transfers (CCTs) to Mexico’s poorest since the 1990s.
The scheme, originally called Pronasol in 1989, before being renamed Progresa in 1997 and Oportunidades in 2002, was the first major social programme of its kind in Latin America.
The programme gave poor families cash in exchange for their meeting conditions such as enrolling their children in school and getting regular health check-ups.