Women, inequality, and the burden of HIV.

nized that the sexual and reproductive health and rights articulated in the ICPD program will be essential elements of any effective strategy for meeting the development goals. In addition to fulfilling the needs identified at Cairo, serious new efforts are required to reduce maternal mortality, to deal with the AIDS pandemic and its particularly heavy toll on women in poor countries, and more generally, to reduce poverty in resource-poor countries. The achievement of these aims, like the reaching of the goals enunciated years ago by many committed to slowing population growth, will improve the social and economic welfare of people in the resourcepoor nations of the world.