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Icpd To Mdgs: Missing Links And Common Grounds., Farina G Abrejo, Babar Shaikh, Sarah Saleem
Icpd To Mdgs: Missing Links And Common Grounds., Farina G Abrejo, Babar Shaikh, Sarah Saleem
Community Health Sciences
The ICPD agenda of reproductive health was declared as the most comprehensive one, which had actually broadened the spectrum of reproductive health and drove the states to embark upon initiatives to improve reproductive health status of their populations. However, like all other countries, Pakistan also seems to have shifted focus of its policies and programs towards achieving MDGs. As a result, concepts highlighted in the ICPD got dropped eventually. In spite of specific goals on maternal and child mortalities in MDGs and all the investment and policy shift, Pakistan has still one of the highest maternal mortality ratios among developing …