Africa’s First ladies from across the continent are in New York for the UN General Assembly meeting to assess the Millennium Development Goals’ (MDGs) perspectives on HIV/AIDS and modify them for effective contributions to the successor Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from the start of the new year.
Consequently, the Organisation of African First Ladies Against HIV/AIDS has met to discuss and fine-tune ways of improving the remedies needed to reduce both the prevalence and new infections to curb the transmission of HIV/AIDS throughout African countries.
Hajia Aisha Buhari, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, addressing the gathering, said in view of the current Boko Haram insurgency ravaging the North Eastern states and lack of adequate healthcare for women and children who live in the internally displaced persons’ camps, the need for more healthcare products and services becomes paramount.
Represented by the wife of the Senate President Toyin Saraki, Hajia Aisha asked the continent’s First ladies to continue to do more to enhance the health and welfare of women especially in the areas of maternal health and child mortality.
In corroboration, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA was emphatic that girl child education remains key to the development framework all over Africa.
In a statement by Adebisi Olumide Ajayi, Media Aide to Saraki, Osotimehin said that solutions to the problems of investing adequately in women and girls in the post-2015 SDGs occupy a prominent place in the oncoming agenda.
