“Making sexual and reproductive health a reality in Africa”
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Access to sexual and reproductive health is a key element in the fight against poverty and a necessary condition for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals set up by the United Nations Agenda for 2015. To move forward to this agenda, the Ministers of Health of the African Union adopted in 2005 a Continental Policy on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, recently strengthen by the Maputo Plan of Action, which set up the main strategies and challenges to be implemented in the next years. Considering it essential to build on partnership and mutual collaboration, a High Level Meeting on Sexual and Reproductive Health Policies in Africa was held in Barcelona from February 27th to March 3rd, promoted by the Spanish Interest Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health, Metges del Mon, the Spanish International Cooperation Agency and the Catalan Development Cooperation Agency, under the framework of the VITA programme.
In this framework, participants including representatives from the Ministries of Health from Ethiopia, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritania, Namibia, Senegal and Tanzania, representatives from the African Union, UNFPA, WHO, The Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria and the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition, representatives from the Spanish International Cooperation Agency, the Catalan Development Cooperation Agency, the Ministry of Health of Spain, the Health Department from Catalonia, representatives from the African regional health organizations (WAHO, ECSA), Spanish and Catalan networks and NGOs (Medicos del Mundo, Medicus Mundi, FAME, CAPS, Creació Positiva, etc.), international NGOs (Pathfinder, Family Care International, Family Health International, Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung, Partners in Population & Development, Center for Reproductive Rights, Population Action International), professionals, researchers and experts from the academic field, reached the following consensus
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