During the last decades, global organizations and women’s rights advocates have called on governments to recognise the multiple determinants of women’s health, and there has been a growing consensus about the need to integrate and widen health services to respond to a broad variety of problems affecting them. Nutrition is a fundamental pillar of women’s well- being, and women’s right to full and equal access to health care, including adequate nutrition during pregnancy and lactation, has been recognised at many international conferences, including the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the 1987 International Conference on.
