Experts meet in Malaysia to improve girls’ reproductive health

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Experts meet in Malaysia to improve girls’ reproductive health

– Reported, June 13, 2013

Nigeria, Africa and the rest of the world, are set to place health issues concerning women and girls on the front burner as over 5,000 reproductive health experts, advocates, leaders in healthcare delivery and other stakeholders gather in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for the landmark Women Deliver 2013 advocacy meeting to press for global action on maternal and reproductive health.

The meeting, 3rd in its series, which would hold from May 28- 30th 2013, at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center, aims to ensure that investments in girls and women remain a global priority in the lead-up to the 2015 Millennium Development Goals, MGDs, deadline and beyond. Women Deliver 2013 generally hopes to build on past conferences and generate new political, financial and grassroots support for girls’ and women’s health and empowerment.

 

National Mirror will be there giving live reports while covering the women’s health and empowerment issues, as well as ways to incorporate these topics into broader sustainable development coverage in the country.

Participants aim to focus on the unmet need for family planning by building on the landmark July 2012 London Summit on Family Planning, where global leaders committed to provide contraceptive access to 120 million women in the world’s poorest countries by the year 2020.

The conference also aims to focus on critical issues related to women’s health and empowerment, with the keynote theme entitled: “investing in women”, and the post-2015 development framework.

Among special speakers expected at the conference are Melinda Gates, Co-chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Michelle Bachelet, UN Secretary-General & Executive Director of United Nations Women and Helen Clark, Administrator, UNDP.

In a statement made available to National Mirror, former Nigerian Health Minister and current UNFPA Executive Director, Prof. Babatunde Osotimehin noted: Women Deliver 2013 offers an unprecedented opportunity to build on the tremendous momentum generated last year around reproductive health, especially during the London Summit on Family Planning.

“Access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, age, appropriate sexuality education, information and services and skilled and motivated care givers help ensure that all women and girls have the power to shape their futures,” he concluded.

Women Deliver Founder and President Jill Sheffield further stated: “With the MDG target date just around the corner, the time is now for us to ensure that girls and women are central pillars in the new development agenda.

“We have made incredible strides toward improving women’s health and rights in recent years, and we cannot stop now. Women Deliver 2013 will offer a powerful forum for ensuring that we continue to deliver for girls and women for years to come.”

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