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| Thursday, 25 March 2004 |
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Chinese to enjoy better reproductive care BEIJING, Wednesday (Xinhua) The Chinese people are expected to enjoy better reproductive health care in the coming years with the development of three programs in the country, reported.Wednesday's China Daily. The three programs, all started in 2001, are the Program for Improving the Quality of Contraceptive Care, the Reproductive Tract Infection Intervention Program, and the Healthy Baby.Promotion Program. By now, the programs have included 19 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, and results in some regions are " encouraging", said Xiao Shaobo, a senior official with the.National Population and Family Planning Commission. Xiao made the remarks at a special session of the seventh meeting of World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Advisory Panel for Asia and the Pacific, which started at Beijing University. In the future, the commission will strive to bring such programs into the country's medium and long-term planning for scientific and technological development, and the national HIV.prevention and control actions, said Xiao. The official also noted that the WHO has been making contributions. As a kind of return, Chinese scientists said they are ready to help other countries. China is a huge market for reproductive health products and services. There were 344 million women aged from 15 to 49 years by 2000. Among them, 251 million women are married and each year 7.46 million women are newly married, according to China Daily. |
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