tailieunhanh - WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

During the last decades, global organizations and women’s rights advocates have called on governments to recognise the multiple determinants of women’s health, and there has been a growing consensus about the need to integrate and widen health services to respond to a broad variety of problems affecting them. Nutrition is a fundamental pillar of women’s well- being, and women’s right to full and equal access to health care, including adequate nutrition during pregnancy and lactation, has been recognised at many international conferences, including the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the 1987 International Conference on. | WOMEN S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA by Farzaneh Roudi-Fahimi About half of the 10 million women who give birth every year in the Middle East and North Africa MENA experience some kind of complication with more than 1 million of them suffering from serious injuries that could lead to long-term Millions more experience other reproductive health problems such as reproductive tract These problems harm not just women but also children and families affecting the quality of life in the region and impeding long-term economic and social development. Although there is considerable variation in the region MENA countries continue to face major challenges to meeting women s reproductive health needs including the poor quality of health services widespread ignorance about reproductive health issues financial constraints due to competing priorities and continuing gender Women s reproductive health problems which are often preventable are compounded by social and economic conditions and gender roles. MENA governments failure to address women s reproductive health needs increases both health care costs and social inequalities. Background In 1994 delegates at the UN International Conference on Population and Development ICPD in Cairo agreed on a definition for the term reproductive health see Box 1 page 2 . The participating governments agreed that family planning should be provided in the context of reproductive rights and reproductive health care and that population policies should address social development by going beyond family planning especially by encouraging the advancement of women. National governments and the international community have increasingly adopted language supporting reproductive health but reorienting policies and programs has been more challenging. Since the Cairo conference a common set of indicators for monitoring progress on reproductive Photo removed for copyright reasons. Improving .

• Sức khỏe phụ nữ
• Human Fetuses
• Congenital Malformations
• Normal Karyotype
• Placental Angiogenesis
• Fetal Growth Restriction
• Reduced Fetal Movements
• Human Papilloma
• Virus Infection
• Papillomavirus Infection
• Vaccine Delivery