African first ladies
across the globe are in New York to assess and modify effective means of
contributing to the Millennium Development Goals and new perspectives on
HIV & AIDS.
Aisha Buhari ,wife
of Nigeria’s President, represented by the wife of the Senate President,
Toyin Saraki, at the event, said that in the eye of the current insurgency and
the lack of adequate health care for women and children that had been affected
by the insurgency and had to live in Internally Displaced Persons’ camps, the
need for health care became paramount.
Toyin stressed on
the need to continually do more, especially in the areas of maternal health and
child mortality.
The issues of
investing adequately in women and girls in the context of the post 2015 agenda
was addressed by the executive director of UNFPA, Dr. Babatunde
Osotimehin, who said girl child education remained key to the development
framework all over Africa.
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