The ICPD Programme of Action continues to be one of the most comprehensive agendas on sustainable development, human development and the inter-linkages with key global and political trends such as the environment, migration, young people, women, health and education.
One of the key agendas that will be discussed in Nairobi are the progresses made towards women’s health and rights.The reduction of maternal mortality in the 1980s remains till today a case study for other nations to follow suit. Malaysia is also one of the nine countries which have also reached the 90 per cent target of skilled attendance at birth and is ranked third, after China and Fiji, with 99 per cent.
Universal HPV vaccination has been suggested as a means to reduce up to 420,000 deaths due to cervical cancer worldwide. In recent years we have been set back by the rising number of teenage pregnancies and early age marriages.But as our own history shows us - utilising the public health paradigm and a scientific evidence-based - and building laws, policies and programmes in line with these would serve as the best way ahead to resolve these issues.
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