The girl child 2009, para. 41

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Calls upon States to strengthen the capacity of national health systems, and in this regard calls upon the international community to assist national efforts, including by allocation of adequate resources in order to provide essential services needed to prevent obstetric fistula and to treat those cases that occur by providing the continuum of services, including family planning, prenatal and post-natal care, skilled birth attendance, emergency obstetric care and post-partum care, to adolescent girls, including those living in poverty and in underserved rural areas where obstetric fistula is most common;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2009
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
UNGA resolution, The girl child (2009), A/RES/64/145, OP 41.
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OP
Paragraph number
41