Wedding Relief

As representatives of the World Health Organization Member States arrive in Geneva this week for the 65th World Health Assembly, I feel a cautious optimism about the future, and the future health of Africa. With two female heads of state in Africa – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Liberia and Joyce Banda in Malawi – women’s health and gender equality are no longer marginalised, they have become central to a nation’s potential for development and prosperity. National level attention to women’s health and opportunity has become the standard against which our collective progress is judged.
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