Population Fund launches major initiatives on Africa, women.The UN Population Fund has launched major initiatives to aid sub-Saharan Africa and women, its Executive Director, Dr. Nafis Sadik Dr. Nafis Sadik, currently Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General with additional responsibilities as Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia, and former head of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Sadik is an alumna of Dow Medical College. Dr. , told the Population Commission on 21 February. In 1987, the Fund devised a Comprehensive aid strategy for subSaharan Africa, the region of the world with the fastest growing population, highest fertility and mortality. rates, and the greatest need for population assistance. Awareness of the implications of population growth and movement has increased dramatically among leaders of African countries over the past five years, she said. The Fund has also strengthened its capacity to deal with issues concerning women, population and development. Women and their offspring are the "main victims of unregulated Adj. 1. unregulated - not regulated; not subject to rule or discipline; "unregulated off-shore fishing" regulated - controlled or governed according to rule or principle or law; "well regulated industries"; "houses with regulated temperature" 2. fertility", she said, quoting the 1984 Mexico City Mexico City Spanish Ciudad de México City (pop., 2000: city, 8,605,239; 2003 metro. area est., 18,660,000), capital of Mexico. Located at an elevation of 7,350 ft (2,240 m), it is officially coterminous with the Federal District, which occupies 571 sq mi Declaration on Population and Development. Women must be more than just the recipients of population programmes. They must become participants, managers and decision-makers. The evidence is overwhelming that improving their role, status and participation accelerates the pace of socioeconomic and demographic change. Female literacy is among the criteria determining priority status for Population Fund assistance, she said, adding: "Our aim is simple even if our task is not: to educate girls, improve women's working conditions and extend employment opportunities to women, all three as quickly as possible". The Fund, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, has called on the international community to adopt specific goals for the twenty-first century and to work together towards balancing population and resources-that is, towards sustainable development Sustainable development is a socio-ecological process characterized by the fulfilment of human needs while maintaining the quality of the natural environment indefinitely. The linkage between environment and development was globally recognized in 1980, when the International Union . Extending family planning family planning Use of measures designed to regulate the number and spacing of children within a family, largely to curb population growth and ensure each family’s access to limited resources. and health programmes to the urban poor and to rural areas, reducing maternal and infant mortality (hardware) infant mortality - It is common lore among hackers (and in the electronics industry at large) that the chances of sudden hardware failure drop off exponentially with a machine's time since first use (that is, until the relatively distant time at which enough mechanical , bringing women into the development mainstream, reducing illiteracy illiteracy, inability to meet a certain minimum criterion of reading and writing skill. Definition of Illiteracy The exact nature of the criterion varies, so that illiteracy must be defined in each case before the term can be used in a meaningful and relieving population pressures on the environment are some of the suggested goals. "What we do in the next decade will determine the patterns of world population growth for much of the next century", Dr. Sadik said. She said that the world population would reach 6 billion even sooner than had been expected two years ago. By the year 2010, it would be 7 billion; and by 2022, 8 billion. "If we fail, there could be 14 billion people on Earth in the year 2100", she warned. |
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