“Reproductive Health” is Part of Un Secretary General’s 5yr Plan

By Stefano Gennarini, J.D. | January 26, 2012

Yesterday the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon outlined an action agenda for the next five years as Secretary General. The action plan is very ambitious, and includes eliminating deaths from malaria, polio, new paediatric HIV infections, and maternal neonatal tetanus, as well as redoubling the efforts to achieve the millennium goals.

Included in the action agenda is the provision of reproductive health services.

We will deepen our youth focus and develop an action plan across the full range of United Nations programmes, including employment, entrepreneurship, political participation, human rights, education and reproductive health….

We will also fully implement the global strategy on women’s and children’s health to save tens of millions of lives, including by providing reproductive health services…

Now is our moment. Now is our time to create the future we want.

It would be great if really the UN would concentrate on reducing maternal and child mortality. Unfortunately they divert their efforts to ridiculous initiatives like the “Condomize Campaign”. The claim made by activists is that such initiatives are essential for reproductive health, flying in the face of conventional wisdom and science.

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