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Why integrate Gender in the Health Millennium Development Goals? The fight against poverty requires equality and justice for women. Helping communities out of poverty will depend on women’s participation and leadership, access to health and education and other resources. Development includes the equal right for men and women to enjoy the best attainable standard of health. For women in particular this includes being able to enjoy their reproductive and sexual rights, freedom from violence, and equal rights in the family and in society. 10 | Engendering Global Health
Photographer: Jean Baptiste Lopez dla Medicos del Mundo At the Millennium Summit in 2000 the 189 member states of the United Nations made a commitment in the Millennium Declaration to achieve eight goals, now referred to as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The eight Millennium Development Goals aim at reducing poverty, promoting education, improving maternal health, promoting gender equality, and combating child mortality, HIV/AIDS and other diseases. The goals are to be achieved by 2015. Health is a vital driver of economic development. In order to achieve the health MDGs by 2015, significant action and increased political will are necessary. MDG 5 aims to improve maternal health by reducing maternal mortality and morbidity rates and provide access to reproductive health. There is still a long way to go to achieve this goal. Over half a million women worldwide die every year during pregnancy or childbirth, and over 90 percent of these largely preventable deaths occur in developing countries. In many countries women do not have access to contraceptives and/or pre- and antenatal care. Because of their low socio-economic position, women often have no power to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. Gender equality and the empowerment of women are the focus of the third MDG. But more than that, both health and gender equality cut across all eight development goals. Promoting health and expanding health systems are important conditions for sustainable development. At the same time, gender inequalities have to be addressed in order to improve women‘s health – and thereby the health of their families. ACTION FOR GLOBAL HEALTH | 11
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