To promote the status of women and girls through education and training. To make men aware of their responsibility in questions of reproductive health and family planning. To train and to provide further training for local medical and paramedical personnel, such as traditional midwives and health workers, for example. To undertake the work of providing information and sensitizing the general public to these problems in Switzerland. Strategy Women have a right to basic medical care.
Healthy women have a greater chance of having healthy children.
Access to education and the improvement of the status of women in the family and in society resulting from this have positive effects on the development of their children and of society as a whole. Family planning must be voluntary. Its acceptance depends very much on the chances of survival and the health of the children. Prevention is cheaper than curative measures. The principal factors that can lead to advances in the field of social development are the revaluation of the role of women, the improvement of their status in the family and in society and the assurance of their dignity and their human rights.