Evangelina started innovative health programs on her return from France, but her advocacy for sex workers and contraception soon plunged her into controversy.
Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo
Evangelina raises the funds to set sail for Paris to learn about the latest advances in women’s health.
Born into poverty and abandoned by her parents, Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo rises from a life selling sweets in the street to become the first female Dominican doctor in 1911.
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