Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula 2016, para. 9
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Recognizing that lack of access to sexual and reproductive health, especially emergency obstetric services, remains among the leading causes of obstetric fistula, leading to ill health and death for women and girls of childbearing age in many regions of the world, and that a dramatic and sustainable scaling-up of quality treatment and health-care services, including high quality emergency obstetric services, and of the number of trained, competent fistula surgeons and midwives, is needed to significantly reduce maternal and newborn mortality and to eradicate obstetric fistula,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Health
Person(s) affected
Children
Girls
Infants
Women
Year
2016
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
UNGA resolution, Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2016), A/RES/71/169, PP 9.