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EU Council conclusions on the EU role in Global Health

By Alliance Alert

ReliefWeb: "6. This support shall ensure that the main components of health systems - health workforce, access to medicines, infrastructure and logistics, financing and management - are effective enough to deliver universal coverage of basic quality care, through a holistic and rights based approach. In this regard, particular attention will be devoted to the four main health challenges (sexual and reproductive health, child health, communicable and non-communicable diseases) and to the multidimensional nature of health, with close links to gender, food security and nutrition, water and sanitation, education, and poverty . . . Health systems should pay special attention to gender equality, women's needs and rights, including combating gender-based violence. Recalling relevant international instruments, the Council recognizes women's rights to have control over, and decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexual and reproductive health . . . "

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 11, 2010 (boomark / email).