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The OECD emphasises that 'Investment in health is an important means of economic development and substantially improved health outcomes are a prerequisite for developing countries to break out of the cycle of poverty. If the health of poor people is to improve, a ‘pro-poor’ health approach is needed. This goes beyond the health sector and includes policies in areas that disproportionately affect the health and economic security of the poor, such as education, nutrition, water and sanitation.'
HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis are direct causes and consequences of poverty, which particularly expose women and children. I welcome the goodwill of the international community and I urge our governments to enhance respectful partnership, specifically in the field of health.
Nevertheless, I must abstain: the means proposed to fight the 'very high and rising' number of HIV/AIDS-infected women, is to provide 'appropriate sexual and reproductive health information and services', to protect against
'unwanted pregnancies'. Pregnancy is not an illness: children are a richness in developing countries. This reveals another agenda which interprets reproductive health to include abortion.
However, this is not the position of the Council, which has clarified that 'reproductive health' does NOT include 'abortion'. Until this is clarified by the Commission, I cannot support this ambiguous terminology."@en1
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