By Kim Saulse
10 November 2009
A new World Health Organisation (WHO) report has found that despite progress in the past decades, societies continue to fail to meet the health care needs of women at the most important phases of their lives.
This mostly happens in women’s adolescent years and in older age.
It has been reported that at the launch of the report, WHO director-general Margaret Chan, said up to 80% of all health care and 90% of care for HIV and Aids-related illness was provided in the home - almost always by women.
But more often than not, they go unsupported and unrecognised.
10 November 2009
A new World Health Organisation (WHO) report has found that despite progress in the past decades, societies continue to fail to meet the health care needs of women at the most important phases of their lives.
This mostly happens in women’s adolescent years and in older age.
It has been reported that at the launch of the report, WHO director-general Margaret Chan, said up to 80% of all health care and 90% of care for HIV and Aids-related illness was provided in the home - almost always by women.
But more often than not, they go unsupported and unrecognised.
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