Nigeria Lags Behind In Cairo Commitment, National Population Commission Says - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 12, 2019
The Acting Chairman, National Population Commission, YusufAnka says Nigeria still lags behind in the Cairo Commitment, with high maternalmortality rate.
Anka made this known at the commemoration of the 2019 WorldPopulation Day in Abuja, with the theme: ’25-Years of ICPD: Accelerating thePromise’.
The International Conference on Population and Development,ICPD was held in Cairo where an agreement was reached by one hundred andseventy nine countries.
It was adopted in 1994 in Cairo, Egypt, to adopt thevisionary programme of action agreeing to put people first, and empower womento freely decide the timing and spacing of their pregnancies.
Anka noted that the critical issue facing Nigeria was howfar the country had fared in meeting the targets of the Cairo Summit and whatmeasures have been put in place to accelerate the full implementation of theICPD Programme of Action.