79th WHA Individual Statements
12.6 - Health in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
IPPF thanks the Director-General for the report. The world is dangerously off track in achieving the health-related SDGs, notably the targets most affecting women, girls, and adolescents — maternal mortality, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and gender-based violence — remain among the most neglected.
Maternal mortality rates stay unacceptably high, anemia among women is worsening, and unsafe abortions – that could have been prevented – continue to claim lives. These are not accidents but the result of deliberate political choices.
We are deeply concerned that cuts to development assistance are worsening this situation as well as disrupting the very surveys — including the Demographic and Health Surveys — that generate most data on contraceptive use and sexual violence. Without this evidence, the realities of the most marginalized become invisible.
IPPF urges Member States to reverse the rollback of SRHR financing, invest in gender-responsive data systems, and act to end preventable maternal death — including from unsafe abortion. Women's and girls' lives depend on it.