Family planning programmes have achieved considerable success in Peru, President Alberto Fujimori said at a Headquarters press conference this morning.
The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by the Spokesman for the Secretary-General, Fred Eckhard.
The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by the Spokesman for the Secretary-General, Fred Eckhard.
Okay. Good afternoon. I'd like to welcome to the briefing Dr. Peter Piot, the Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) who will be discussing the impact of HIV/AIDS on population and development issues.
The way to avoid abortions was to provide access to family planning contraceptive methods and to enable women actually to use those services, Dr. Nafis Sadik, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), said at a Headquarters press briefing this morning.
