ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><HTML xmlns:asp><HEAD> <TITLE>Ethiopia in position to achieve MDGs in health sector</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <META content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0" name=GENERATOR> <META content="Visual Basic .NET 7.1" name=CODE_LANGUAGE> <META content=JavaScript name=vs_defaultClientScript> <META content=http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5 name=vs_targetSchema><LINK href="../../../../Style/ENA.css" type=text/css rel=stylesheet ><LINK href="../../../../../vg.css" type=text/css rel=STYLESHEET ></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff MS_POSITIONING="GridLayout"> <P> &nbsp;</P> <TABLE id=Table1 style="Z-INDEX: 102; LEFT: 8px; WIDTH: 984px; POSITION: absolute; TOP: 8px; HEIGHT: 24px" cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=1 width=984 border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD style="WIDTH: 976px" vAlign=middle align=center> <P style="text-align: left"> <img src="../../../../Images/Logo.gif" /> &nbsp;&nbsp; <IMG src="../../../../Images/ENALogo.gif" ></P></TD> <TD vAlign=middle align=center> <P>&nbsp;</P></TD></TR> <TR> <TD style="WIDTH: 976px" vAlign="middle" align="center" bgColor="#cc3399" colSpan="1" rowSpan="1"></TD> <TD vAlign="middle" align="center"></TD> </TR></TBODY></TABLE> <br /> <br /> <table> <tr> <td style="width: 622px" valign="top"> <TABLE id=Table2 style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px solid; BORDER-TOP: 0px solid; Z-INDEX: 103; LEFT: 11px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px solid; TOP: 97px;" cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=1 border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; BORDER-BOTTOM: darkgray 1px solid; width: 588px; height: 1px;" vAlign=bottom align=center bgColor=white> <SPAN id=lblHeading style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: larger; WIDTH: 580px; COLOR: royalblue; FONT-FAMILY: Visual Geez Unicode; HEIGHT: 24px; line-height: normal;" >Ethiopia in position to achieve MDGs in health sector</SPAN></TD></TR> <TR style="PADDING-RIGHT: 12px; PADDING-LEFT: 12px; LEFT: 20px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; MARGIN-LEFT: 6px; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; PADDING-TOP: 12px"> <TD style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Visual Geez Unicode; HEIGHT: 17px; width: 588px; background-color: ghostwhite;" vAlign=top align=left bgColor=#f8f8ff> <span style="font-size: 10pt">Addis Ababa, January 26, 2012 (Addis Ababa) - Ethiopia is in a position to achieve the MDGs in the health sector, Commissioner for Social Affairs with the African Union Commission, Bience Gawanas said.<p><p>A press briefing on Promotion of the Welfare of Persons with Disability, Campaign on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality (CARMMA), African Cultural Renaissance Campaign 2010-2012 as well as Trafficking was held here on Thursday.<p><p>Gawanas on the occasion said Ethiopia is undertaking various activities including creating community health professionals, which is indication towards achieving the same goal.<p><p>The Commissioner said African countries, which implemented CARMMA, have registered significant result in reducing maternal death. <p><p>She said AU is concerned with issues related to African mothers and children and stressed the need for each country to give prime attention to the issue.<p><p>In this case Ethiopia has created and deployed to all areas a number of community health workers. <p><p>Concerning the issue of persons with disability, some minimal achievements were made and more work needed to be done to achieve the mandate of the AU to such persons, Gawanas said.<p><p>The years 1999-2009 were declared by Heads of State and Government as the African Decade of Persons with Disabilities.<p><p> AUC is undertaking activities in collaboration with the IOM to combat trafficking. <p><p>---END---<p></span></TD></TR> </TBODY></TABLE> </td> <td style="width: 657px; font-size: 12pt;" valign="top"> <table> <tr> <td style="width: 366px"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 366px; background-color: cornflowerblue; text-align: center; height: 4px;"> <strong><span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: Trebuchet MS">Headlines</span></strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: smaller; width: 366px; font-family: 'Visual Geez Unicode'"> <img src="../../../../Images/grn_arrow.gif"" /><a href="159067.htm">IGAD, ILO sign MoU </a><br /> <img src="../../../../Images/grn_arrow.gif"" /><a href="159095.htm">Zambian President arrives here </a><br /> <img src="../../../../Images/grn_arrow.gif"" /><a href="159099.htm">AU High Representative holds talks with Somalia's President</a><br /> <img src="../../../../Images/grn_arrow.gif"" /><a href="159100.htm">Ethiopia in position to achieve MDGs in health sector</a><br /> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: whitesmoke; text-align: center;" colspan="2"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #006699; font-family: Trebuchet MS"><strong>(c) The Ethiopian News Agency</strong></span></td> </tr> </table> </BODY></HTML>