| Stockholm Call to Action: Investing in Reproductive Health and Rights as a Development Priority (eng) |
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 As the global community strives to focus its development efforts more effectively to reduce poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the role of reproductive health and rights should receive greater attention. Many of the MDGs - improving maternal health, reducing child mortality, combating HIV/AIDS, and promoting gender equality - directly depend on access to sexual and reproductive health services. Yet reproductive ill health accounts for one-fifth of the global burden of illness and premature death and for one-third among women in the reproductive age. This terrible loss of lives as well as problems from poor reproductive health undermine development by weakening the poor and placing heavy financial and social burdens on households, communities, and countries. To forge consensus on why investing in reproductive health and rights is a key element of reducing poverty and achieving the MDGs, the Government of Sweden and UNFPA convened a High-Level Roundtable on the 11 and 12 April 2005 in Stockholm, Sweden. Ministers of Finance, Planning, Health and State from developing countries, government representatives from donor countries, leaders of UN agencies, developments banks and foundations, Parliamentarians, as well as civil society and youth leaders endorsed the "Stockholm Call to Action: Investing in Reproductive Health and Rights as a Development Priority".
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