REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH OF FEMALE MIGRANT WORKERS NEEDS SPECIAL ATTENTION, MALAYSIA TELLS COMMISSION ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT

27 February 1997

Press Release
POP/639/

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH OF FEMALE MIGRANT WORKERS NEEDS SPECIAL ATTENTION, MALAYSIA TELLS COMMISSION ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT

19970227 CORRECTION

On page seven of Press Release POP/639 issued 25 February, the following corrections should be noted in the statement of CARLOS ARAMBURU (Peru):

-- the second sentence of the first paragraph should read: National family planning programs had increased access to contraceptives, and the proportion of married women using effective methods had increased from one third in 1991 to two thirds in 1996;

-- the second sentence of the second paragraph should read: There were 600,000 poor peasants who had moved into the cities, and the programme's goal was that those people should return to communities with improved roads, structures and health services.

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