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YEAR: 1994

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Maternal and child health and family planning: traditional practices harmful

to the health of women and children.

AUTHORS

World Health Assembly (47th: 1994: Geneva)

SOURCE

[Geneva, Switzerland], World Health Organization [WHO], 1994 May 10. 2 p.

Resolution of the World Health Assembl; WHA47.10

ABSTRACT

This paper presents the agenda for the 47th World Health Assembly, "Maternal and Child Health and Family

Planning: traditional practices harmful to the health of women and children." The meeting agenda recognizes that

although some traditional practices may be beneficial and harmless, others, particularly those relating to female

genital mutilation (FGM) and early sexual relations and reproduction, cause serious problems in pregnancy and

childbirth and have a profound effect on the health and development of children. In the agenda, all Member States

are urged to: 1) assess the extent to which harmful traditional practices affecting the health of women and children

constitute a social and public health problem in any local community or sub-group; 2) establish national policies and

programs that will effectively, and with legal instruments, abolish FGM, childbearing before biological and social

maturity, and other harmful practices affecting the health of women and children; and 3) collaborate with national

nongovernmental groups active in this field, draw upon their experience and expertise and, encourage their

establishment where such groups do not exist. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 4084-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Maternal and child health and family planning: traditional

practices harmful to the health of women and children.", is(are) World Health Assembly (47th: 1994: Geneva). The

source of this article is "[Geneva, Switzerland], World Health Organization [WHO], 1994 May 10. 2 p. Resolution of the

World Health Assembl; WHA47.10". This article was published in 1994 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info®

Document ID: CONT2T 4084-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 9084

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