tailieunhanh - 2011 Canadian Federal Election Questionnaire

The GOI’s desire to achieve the MDGs is at the heart of its health programming. Health is identified as a priority for the GOI in the 2010‐2014 National Medium‐Term Development Plan. Additional strategies and plans from the Ministry of Health (MOH) and presidential decrees guide implementation of the plan. These include disease specific strategies, such as those for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) control, immunization, lymphatic filariasis (LF) elimination, avian influenza (AI), and others focused on animal and human interactions. Presidential Decree No. 29/2011 succinctly describes several health priorities, harmonized with MOH budget allocations that are sufficiently cross-cutting to guide the GHI. | 2011 Canadian Federal Election Questionnaire Submitted to The Conservative Party of Canada CPC The Liberal Party of Canada LPC The New Democratic Party of Canada NDP Le Bloc Québécois BQ The Green Party of Canada GPC Submitted collaboratively by Action Canada for Population and Development ACPD The Canadian Federation for Sexual Health CFSH This Election 2011 questionnaire has been developed collaboratively by ACPD and CFSH 1 Election 2011 A questionnaire for the five main Canadian political parties A. The Muskoka Initiative on Maternal Newborn and Child Health___________________________ In September 2010 the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki Moon launched the Global Strategy for Women s and Children s Health at the end of a global summit on the Millennium Development Goals MDGs . The global strategy specifically calls for a comprehensive integrated package of essential interventions and services . including familyplanning .and safe abortion services when addressing women s and children s health. Access to family planning will improve the empowerment of women and girls and will reduce maternal mortality HIV AIDS transmission infant mortality and adolescent pregnancy. Satisfying the unmet need for contraception in developing countries would prevent 52 million unintended pregnancies annually which in turn would avert more than million maternal and child deaths. Furthermore according to a World Health Organization WHO expert opinion obtained by ACPD in the 2010 G8 lead-up the use of effective contraception reduces but does not eliminate unwanted pregnancy and the demand for induced abortion. Women suffering contraceptive failure require access to safe abortion services if they cannot access safe services they are likely to seek unsafe services. The government s position excluding the funding of safe abortion services from the Muskoka Initiative is at odds with what both the Secretary-General and the WHO suggest is needed. Access to safe abortion when