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Policy Briefs

Reproductive Health in the Millennium Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals
At the United Nation’s Millennium Summit in 2000, world leaders agreed on a declaration that resulted in eight (8) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which together form a policy framework for reducing extreme poverty by 2015 while increasing education, gender equality, health and environmental sustainability.

Sexual and reproductive health and rights are essential to the achievement of the MDGs, and are included as a target under MDG 5.

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The Accra Agenda for Action on Aid Effectiveness

The Accra Agenda
From September 2-4, 2008, donor countries, recipient countries, and civil society organizations met for a High Level Forum (HLF3) in Accra, Ghana to assess progress on the implementation of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and to agree to an “agenda for action.” The Accra High Level Forum ended with the adoption of the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA) through which the international community reaffirmed its commitment to achieve progress in the implementation of the Paris Declaration and intensify efforts to attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

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The Maputo Plan of Action

The Maputo Plan of Action (PoA) for the Operationalisation of the Continental Policy Framework for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights 2007- 2010 is the concrete outcome of a special session of the African Union Conference of Ministers of Health, who met in Maputo, Mozambique in September 2006. Ministers of Health and delegates from 48 African countries unanimously agreed poor sexual and reproductive health is a leading killer in Africa. The goal of the Maputo Plan of Action is “universal access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services in Africa by 2015.”

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