Nigerian First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, other First Ladies, ministers and development experts will gather in New York this week to share their countries’ successes and challenges in the field of maternal and reproductive health commodity security.
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The high-level meeting, which is scheduled to take place in New York on September 7-8, will also look into ways to bridge the gap in essential supplies to save the lives of more women in developing countries.
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In 2001, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, launched a global programme to help Nigeria and other countries adopt predictable and planned methods of securing reproductive health supplies and ensuring their use.
It also encouraged governments to view commodity security as an essential pre-requisite in their efforts to improve the sexual and reproductive health of their populations.
Other participants will include First Ladies and representatives from Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Haiti, Laos, Madagascar, Mali, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Niger, and Sierra Leone.
The meeting will also be attended by representatives of the Netherlands, the European Community, DFID and USAID.
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