NAIROBI: Countries need about $264 billion — the equivalent cost of 110 military aircrafts — to end maternal deaths, gender based violence, child marriage, and provide family planning to all women by 2030, said a United Nations study.
Nations have committed to three global goals related to women’s sexual and reproductive rights within the next 10 years, but the report by the UN Population Fund found there was a funding shortfall to meet these targets. Every day more than 800 women die from preventable causes during pregnancy and childbirth, according to the UNFPA.One in three women globally have faced some form of physical or sexual violence in their lifetime, while harmful practices — such as child marriage — mean every day 33,000 girls are being forcefully wed, according to the UNFPA.
“Keeping girls in school and economic empowerment are key to all of these interventions. So in reality, its not very expensive — we have some idea how to do it, we just need the will power to go forward and do it,” Stover said.
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