Kenya's pro family activists and religious leaders demonstrate as they deliver over 68,000 signatures to the President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, at his office, to remove support for the upcoming International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD25), in Nairobi on November 11, 2019. PHOTO | SIMON MAINA | AFP
The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD25) Summit ended in Nairobi on Thursday on a high note with private sector organisations, multinationals and donor agencies promising to raise $8 billion in the next 10 years in support of programmes promoting the sexual and reproductive health rights of women in poor countries. The pledges were in reaction to research presented at the forum that the world will need $264 billion to address girl’s and women’s sexual and reproductive health issues in the next decade in 132 priority countries, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
The pledge, in the form of technical solutions and medical equipment and amenities, were made by among others the Ford Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, Philips and World Vision.
