Editing Alejandro Toledo (section)

==== Healthcare ====
During his first year in office, Toledo replaced previous health-insurance programs aimed at the poor with a more comprehensive free insurance program, {{Interlanguage link|Seguro Integral de Salud (Perú)|lt=Seguro Integral de Salud|es}} (SIS). The program aimed to provide Peruvians without health insurance with improved access to health care. By the end of his term, SIS covered more than 11&nbsp;million Peruvians living on the outskirts of cities or in rural areas. However, about a third of the country remained without health coverage.<ref name="autogenerated1"/>

The program has been immensely popular. [[Alan García|President García]] expanded the program, which has been praised by neoliberal reformers for extending coverage to indigenous people and women. They also note that it has addressed with considerable success the fact that Peruvian women's healthcare costs are much higher than men's owing to higher rates of illness and reproductive issues. The legislature continues to build upon SIS, using it as a basis for what many hope will someday be universal healthcare coverage for all Peruvians.<ref>Ewing, Christina (2010) [https://books.google.com/books?id=sbqGfzhkFvMC&q=sis&pg=PA162 ''Second-wave Neoliberalism: Gender, Race, and Health Sector Reform in Peru''], Retrieved 1 June 2011. {{ISBN|978-0-271-03711-0}}</ref>

Toledo also attempted to improve access to healthcare in the most remote places. His Juntos program awarded a monthly benefit to poor families who agreed to get vaccinations and screenings, attend school, and obtain birth registration documents. The Toledo administration also provided financial incentives to young doctors who were willing to spend the first few years of their practices in remote areas.<ref name="autogenerated1"/>