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Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula (2009), para. 22
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- (b) To develop, implement and support national and international prevention, care and treatment and reintegration and support strategies, as appropriate, to address effectively the condition of obstetric fistula and to develop further a multisectoral, multidisciplinary, comprehensive and integrated approach in order to bring about lasting solutions and put an end to obstetric fistula, maternal mortality and related morbidities, including through ensuring access to affordable, comprehensive, quality maternal health-care services, including skilled birth attendance and emergency obstetric care;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2017), para. 35
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- (b) Making greater investments in strengthening health systems, ensuring adequately trained and skilled human resources, especially midwives, obstetricians, gynaecologists and doctors, and providing support for the development and maintenance of infrastructure, as well as investments in referral mechanisms, equipment and supply chains, to improve maternal and newborn health -care services and ensure that women and girls have access to the full continuum of care, with functional quality control and monitoring mechanisms in place for all areas of service delivery;
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- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Infants
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula (2011), para. 30
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- (d) To strengthen research, monitoring and evaluation systems, including community-based notification of obstetric fistula cases and maternal and newborn deaths, to guide the implementation of maternal health programmes;
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- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Access to medicines and vaccines in the context of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical andmental health (2019), para. 07
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- Welcoming the Sustainable Development Goals, including, inter alia, Goal 3 on ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages, as well as its specific and interlinked targets, such as target 3.8 on achieving universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all, other health- related Goals and targets, and the guiding principle of the 2030 Agenda, to leave no one behind,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2017), para. 34
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- (a) Redoubling their efforts to meet the internationally agreed goal of improving maternal health by making maternal health-care services and obstetric fistula treatment geographically and financially accessible, including by ensuring universal access to skilled attendance at birth and timely access to high -quality emergency obstetric care and family planning, as well as appropriate prenatal and postnatal care;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Infants
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2019), para. 85
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- 24. Welcomes the contribution to the mobilization of resources for social development by the initiatives taken on a voluntary basis by groups of Member States based on innovative financing mechanisms, including those that aim to provide further access to drugs at affordable prices to developing countries on a sustainable and predictable basis, such as the International Drug Purchase Facility, UNITAID, as well as other initiatives such as the International Finance Facility for Immunization and the Advance Market Commitment for Vaccines;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Cambodia (2003), para. 30
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- 6. Encourages the efforts of the Government of Cambodia to improve further the health conditions of children and their access to education, to promote free and accessible birth registration and to establish a juvenile justice system;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 (2016), para. 040
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- 36. Acknowledge the progress made since the launch of the Global Plan towards the Elimination of New HIV Infections among Children by 2015 and Keeping Their Mothers Alive: 2011–2015, including that an estimated 85 countries are within reach of elimination of mother-to-child transmission, but note that continued efforts are greatly needed;
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- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
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- Mar 5, 2020
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The right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2017), para. 55
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- 9. Calls upon the international community to continue to assist developing countries in promoting the full realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including through access to medicines, in particular essential medicines, vaccines, diagnostics and medical devices that are affordable, safe, efficacious and of quality; financial and technical support and training of personnel, while recognizing that the primary responsibility for promoting and protecting all human rights rests with States; and recognizes the fundamental relevant importance of the transfer of environmentally sound technologies on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2011), para. 74
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- 57. Welcomes the contribution to the mobilization of resources for social development by the initiatives taken on a voluntary basis by groups of Member States based on innovative financing mechanisms, including those that aim to provide further drug access at affordable prices to developing countries on a sustainable and predictable basis, such as the International Drug Purchase Facility, UNITAID, as well as other initiatives, such as the International Finance Facility for Immunization and the Advance Market Commitments for Vaccines, and notes the New York Declaration of 20 September 2004, which launched the Action against Hunger and Poverty initiative and called for further attention to raise funds urgently needed to help meet the Millennium Development Goals and to complement and ensure the long-term stability and predictability of foreign aid;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Access to medicines and vaccines in the context of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical andmental health (2019), para. 44
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- 13. Invites Member States and all stakeholders, including relevant United Nations bodies, agencies, funds and programmes, treaty bodies, special procedure mandate holders, national human rights institutions, civil society and the private sector, to promote policy coherence in the areas of human rights, public health, intellectual property and international trade and investment when considering access to medicines and vaccines;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2017), para. 41
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- (h) Mobilizing funding to provide free or adequately subsidized maternal health-care and obstetric fistula repair and treatment services, including by encouraging networking among providers and the sharing of new treatment techniques and protocols to protect women’s and children’s well-being and survival and to prevent the recurrence of subsequent fistulas by making post -surgery follow- up and the tracking of fistula patients a routine and key component of all fistula programmes, and also to ensure access to elective caesarean sections for fistula survivors who become pregnant again in order to prevent fistula recurrence and to increase the chances of survival of mother and baby in all subsequent pregnancies;
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- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Access to medicines and vaccines in the context of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical andmental health (2019), para. 35
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- 4. Also calls upon States to take steps to implement policies and plans to promote access to comprehensive and cost-effective prevention, treatment and care for the integrated management of non-communicable diseases, including, inter alia, increased access to affordable, safe, effective and quality medicines, vaccines and diagnostics and other health products, including through the full use of TRIPS Agreement provisions and flexibilities;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2020), para. 067
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- 32. Reaffirms that achieving universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all, is essential to eradicate poverty, and reduce inequality and achieve sustainable development for all;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Rights of the child: the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health (2013), para. 040
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- 13. Welcomes the comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant and young child nutrition of the World Health Organization, adopted on 26 May 2012 at the sixty-fifth World Health Assembly, with its targets and time frame, and urges States and, where appropriate, international organizations and partners and the private sector to establish adequate mechanisms to safeguard against potential conflicts of interest and to put the comprehensive implementation plan into practice;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Consolidating gains and accelerating efforts to control and eliminate malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa, by 2030 (2016), para. 49
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- 20. Urges relevant international organizations, in particular the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund, to enhance the assistance efforts of national Governments to provide universal access to malaria control interventions to address all at-risk populations, in particular young children and pregnant women, in malaria-endemic countries, particularly in Africa, as rapidly as possible, with due regard to ensuring the proper use of those interventions, including long-lasting insecticide-treated nets, and sustainability through full community participation and implementation through the health system;
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- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
- Youth
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- Mar 5, 2020
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–2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa (2010), para. 30
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- 15. Requests relevant international organizations, in particular the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund, to assist efforts of national Governments to provide universal access to malaria control interventions especially to address at-risk young children and pregnant women in malaria-endemic countries, particularly in Africa, as rapidly as possible, with due regard to ensuring proper use of those interventions, including long-lasting insecticide nets, and sustainability through full community participation and implementation through the health system;
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- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
- Youth
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 (2016), para. 039
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- 35. Note with deep concern the unacceptably low rates of testing and treatment coverage among children in developing countries, which are a result of social an d structural barriers similar to those that the adult population faces, as well as age- specific barriers, including low rates of early infant diagnosis, inadequate case - finding of children outside of prevention of mother-to-child transmission settings, long delays in returning test results, poor linking of children to treatment, lack of adequate training for health-care workers in paediatric HIV testing, treatment and care, challenges with long-term adherence, the limited number and inadequate availability of efficacious antiretroviral child-friendly formulations in certain countries and regions, stigma and discrimination, and lack of adequate social protection for children and caregivers;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Consolidating gains and accelerating efforts to control and eliminate malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa, by 2015 and beyond (2015), para. 43
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- 16. Urges relevant international organizations, in particular the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund, to enhance the assistance efforts of national Governments to provide universal access to malaria control interventions to address all at-risk populations, in particular young children and pregnant women, in malaria-endemic countries, particularly in Africa, as rapidly as possible, with due regard to ensuring the proper use of those interventions, including long-lasting insecticide-treated nets, and sustainability through full community participation and implementation through the health system;
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- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Consolidating gains and accelerating efforts to control and eliminate malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa, by 2030 (2019), para. 76
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- 36. Notes the essential contribution of the scientific community and the private sector, and stresses that new products such as improved diagnostic tools, more effective medicines and vaccines, new insecticides and more durable insecticide- treated bednets are all fundamental to ensuring sustained progress in efforts to combat the disease; 18
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- Health
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- Infants
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2019), para. 32
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- 11. Calls upon States to accelerate progress to improve maternal health by addressing sexual and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health in a comprehensive manner, inter alia, through the provision of family planning, prenatal care, skilled attendance at birth, including midwives, emergency obstetric and newborn care, postnatal care and methods of prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and infections, such as HIV, within strengthened health -care systems that provide universal access to affordable, equitable and high -quality integrated health-care services and include community-based preventive and clinical care, towards the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; 7
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Enhancing capacity-building in global public health (2003), para. 12
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- Recognizing the need for greater international and regional cooperation to meet new and existing challenges to public health, in particular in promoting effective measures such as vaccines, as well as to assist developing countries in securing vaccines against preventable infectious diseases,
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- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Keeping the promise: united to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (2010), para. 168
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- (e) Stepping up the fight against pneumonia and diarrhoea through the greater use of proven highly effective preventive and treatment measures, as well as new tools, such as new vaccines, which are affordable even in the poorest countries;
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- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (2015), para. 79
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- 51. Also encourages Member States, in cooperation with relevant United Nations humanitarian organizations, to ensure reliable and safe access to sexual and reproductive health-care services in order to protect women, adolescent girls and infants from preventable mortality and morbidity;
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- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Girls
- Infants
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Rights of the child (2007), para. 106
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- (c) To work for a solid effort of national and international action to enhance children’s health, to promote prenatal care and to lower infant and child mortality in all countries and among all peoples;
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- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS (2006), para. 38
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- 34. Commit ourselves to expanding to the greatest extent possible, supported by international cooperation and partnership, our capacity to deliver comprehensive HIV/AIDS programmes in ways that strengthen existing national health and social systems, including by integrating HIV/AIDS intervention into programmes for primary health care, mother and child health, sexual and reproductive health, tuberculosis, hepatitis C, sexually transmitted infections, nutrition, children affected, orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS, as well as formal and informal education;
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- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2017), para. 24
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- 5. Also calls upon States to ensure equitable coverage and timely access, by means of national plans, policies and programmes, to health-care services, in particular emergency obstetric and newborn care, skilled birth attendance, obstetric fistula treatment and family planning, that is financially and culturally accessible, including in rural and most remote areas;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The rights of the child (2001), para. 040
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- 10. Urges States to give particular emphasis to the prevention of HIV infection in young children and strengthen efforts to prevent adolescents and women from becoming HIV-infected, inter alia, by including HIV/AIDS prevention in educational curricula and educational programmes consistent with the epidemiology of the diseases in each State, and by supporting wide-scale voluntary HIV testing and counselling programmes for pregnant women, together with services for HIV-infected pregnant women to reduce the risk of transmitting the virus from HIV/AIDS-infected pregnant women to their children;
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- Education
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Infants
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2015), para. 40
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- (h) To mobilize funding to provide free or adequately subsidized maternal health-care and obstetric fistula repair and treatment services, including by encouraging networking among providers and the sharing of new treatment techniques and protocols to protect women’s and children’s well-being and survival and to prevent the recurrence of subsequent fistulas by making post-surgery follow- up and the tracking of fistula patients a routine and key component of all fistula programmes, and also to ensure access to elective caesarean sections for fistula survivors who become pregnant again in order to prevent fistula recurrence and to increase the chances of survival of mother and baby in all subsequent pregnancies;
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- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Consolidating gains and accelerating efforts to control and eliminate malaria in developing countries,particularly in Africa, by 2015 (2011), para. 09
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- Welcoming also the Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, undertaken by a broad coalition of partners, in support of national plans and strategies, in order to significantly reduce the number of maternal, newborn and under-five child deaths as a matter of immediate concern by scaling up a priority package of high-impact interventions and integrating efforts in sectors such as health, education, gender equality, water and sanitation, poverty reduction and nutrition,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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