Provincial Consultative Meeting on International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) @ 15 (Part 4)

Resource Speaker: Ms. Joy Alcantara UNFPA PPC Masbate She discussed the salient features of ICPD@15: universal access to primary education by 2015 specifically among girls and women; reduction of infant and child mortality; reduction of maternal mortality; and access to reproductive and sexual health services including family planning. Five years after the specific benchmarks reflected in the 1994 ICPD Program of Action (PoA), the 179 member-state of the United Nations have again set new benchmarks for four priority programs which include: education and literacy for both sexes should be at least 90 percent and universal access to primary education by 2015; reproductive health care; unmet need for contraception, maternal mortality reduction; and HIV/AIDS.