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We are now almost at the end of year 3 of the Global Goals, and FIGO’s one million members are already contributing to ensuring healthy lives and promoting wellbeing for all people (SDG3) as well as empowering women and girls (SDG5) in their own communities.
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FIGO 2018 through the SDGs lens
As a global federation with 132 country member societies, FIGO has always believed in the principles of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) movement.
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Making UHC work for women
Parliamentarians from 35 countries around the world are calling for the G8 summit in France this month to focus on the role of women and girls in modern-day societies.
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G8 'should focus on role of women and girls'
Poor, inconsistent data could be seriously hindering progress towards better health and wellbeing worldwide - and the problem is particularly prevalent where women and children are concerned.
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Women and Children Need Better Data
Ensuring equal access to public services, and ensuring those services respond to the specific needs of women’s health, is fundamental to reducing poverty, inequality, and advancing the rights of women and girls.
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Equal access to public services
FIGO's postpartum IUD programme offers a roadmap for collaboration between doctors and nurses to scale up access to family planning in India.
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Sharing the FP task in India
Women and children are disproportionately affected, since safe delivery requires clean water and according to a 2015 World Health Organisation (WHO) report on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in low- and middle-income country health facilities, 38 percent lack safe water, 19 percent lack sanitation and 35 percent lack water and soap for hand-washing.
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Poor WASH leaves women behind
Partnership, fellowship and dialogue have always been at the heart of FIGO's work to improve the health and wellbeing of every woman, and our commitment to SDG17: Partnerships For The Goals.
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FIGO at 65: the Power of Partnership
FIGO (The International Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecologists) is pleased to see the reaffirmed commitment highlighting access to quality health care is a fundamental right of every human being.
We are especially pleased to see your ambition to mobilise health professionals to deal effectively with the current and future challenges to health and to take joint actions to build stronger and sustainable primary health care towards achieving universal health coverage.
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Statement on Primary Healthcare towards UHC
FIGO presents our statement on the Director-General's report on Primary Health Care towards Universal Health Coverage at the 72nd World Health Assembly in Geneva.
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Statement on Universal Health Coverage (UHC)