Women’s movements like International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo and Women’s conference in Beijing sought to mainstream reproductive health and gender issues in the development discourse to establish women’s rights, ameliorate their poor health status and to empower them (International Conference on population and Development, 1994; Beijing declaration and Platform for action, 1995). On the other hand, the Child Survival Revolution, the World Summit for Children, the Child Right Movement and the United Nation’s ‘The World Fit for Children’ give priority to child health committing to reducing under-five mortality (Child Survival Partnership 2004). More recently, the UN calls for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) (Table 1).
