15. Notes the high rate of maternal and infant mortality; stresses the importance of universal access to reproductive health care services such as family planning, safe motherhood services, prevention, detection and treatment of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS, and of access to infant health services including childhood vaccination; also notes the totally inadequate quality of sex education, particularly for young people, and in particular its failure to convey to boys and young men a change in cultural attitudes ...[+++] which would lead them to refrain from engaging in behaviour detrimental to the health and dignity of women;

15. Notes the high rate of maternal and infant mortality; stresses the importance of universal access to reproductive health care services such as family planning, safe motherhood services, prevention, detection and treatment of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS, and of access to infant health services including childhood vaccination; also notes the totally inadequate quality of sex education, particularly for young people, and in particular its failure to convey to boys and young men a change in cultural attitudes ...[+++] which would lead them to refrain from engaging in behaviour detrimental to the health and dignity of women;

33. Points out to the Commission that the importance of women as primary health promoters should be highlighted and that a gender perspective therefore needs to be introduced into health policies, into the statistics and research relating to them and into education, environment, international trade, agriculture and immigration policies; 20% of the world's population are currently of child-bearing age, making it crucial for information to be provided on sexual and reproductive health and health services, such as family planning and safe motherhood services, so as to enable this section of the population to guard against unwanted pregnanc ...[+++]ies, clandestine abortion and sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS; stresses that the numbers and rates of HIV infection among women and girls are rising compared to those of men; points out that in 1997, 41% of HIV-positive adults were women and girls, and yet today this group accounts for 50% of all people living with HIV or AIDS worldwide; also notes that in sub-Saharan Africa, the figure is 58%;

33. Points out to the Commission that the importance of women as primary health promoters should be highlighted and that a gender perspective therefore needs to be introduced into health policies, into the statistics and research relating to them and into education, environment, international trade, agriculture and immigration policies; 20% of the world's population are currently of child-bearing age, making it crucial for information to be provided on sexual and reproductive health and health services, such as family planning and safe motherhood services, so as to enable this section of the population to guard against unwanted pregnanc ...[+++]ies, clandestine abortion and sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS; stresses that the numbers and rates of HIV infection among women and girls are rising compared to those of men; points out that in 1997, 41% of HIV-positive adults were women and girls, and yet today this group accounts for 50% of all people living with HIV or AIDS worldwide; also notes that in sub-Saharan Africa, the figure is 58%;

Cost of the surrogacy is approximately $51,000. Our concern on the health committee and my personal concern is that surrogacy has been said to be altruistic, that is, to help someone.

It includes: - coordination between refugee communities, relief agencies and the appropriate authorities; - setting up of women's self-support groups; - special training and technical assistance for volunteers from the groups; - the establishment of mobile teams of health and social workers to provide back-up for the self-support groups; - improved access to specialist counselling, health and maternity care; - strengthening of the existing health services; - distribution of information and educational material, including use of ...[+++]the media where possible.