14.10 Access to health facilities for women in the rural areas has been referred to in Article 12.

Implementation The Plan attempted to increase access to medical facilities in rural areas through the formation of the Rural Health Service.

At the same time, WHO advocated for safe access to health facilities for all Palestinians.

The conditions of women and children had worsened owing to the wall, which prevented them from accessing health facilities.

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Health facilities

C. Sanitation

Access to sanitation services for the poor could also be expanded through dedicated comprehensive programmes, such as total sanitation campaigns .

In view of women's role in household sanitation and hygiene, awareness raising campaigns can be effective when targeted to this audience, mobilizing women to spread the sanitation and hygiene message.

Limited access to health care.

Poor accessibility of health facilities and services.

The establishment by the Executive Director of the Water and Sanitation Trust Fund would make it considerably easier to achieve the goal of reducing the number of people without access to drinking water or sanitation.

The new settlements and the conflict between the settlers and the Palestinians were also worrisome, as were the difficulties the Palestinians were experiencing in getting access to health facilities, electricity, water, and education.

(f) Scaling up quality maternal and child health care in health facilities.

Problems of accessibility to health facilities is a factor that continues to restrict access to communities which are located in the remotest parts of the country and where women find it difficult to obtain advice as well as contraceptives.

12.8.2 Sanitation and drinking water

(d) To ensure equal access to health services

Strategies for conveying key sanitation and hygiene messages, for example, about hand washing, and for promoting sanitation solutions have proven effective when they are culturally and gender sensitive.

Responding to sanitation needs in urban and rural areas

Rural sanitation could also be improved through strengthening health extension services.

Evidence and lessons learned in the past demonstrate that hygiene, sanitation and water programmes should have both a strategic approach and an appropriate mix of programme components, including promotion of behavioural change, access to facilities and an enabling environment.

Loan guarantee programmes could help to secure access to capital markets for investments in sanitation, whether for households, community based organizations, or local authorities.

In the post war period, health care on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina is faced with multiple challenges.

This could involve a combination of targeting the sanitation needs of the poor and increasing support for hygiene education, which can leverage domestic sanitation demand and investment.

Treating sanitation as both a right and a civic responsibility is an approach that can help to shape both individual behaviour and community action for improving sanitation.

According to the 1994 health development plan, the number of formal health provision services is as follows

The lack of resources to run a functioning jail (sanitation, water, food) was also discussed.

According to a survey by the National Statistical Office, as a result of the implementation of this scheme, the proportion of people having access to health facilities when ill has risen from 49 per cent in 1991 to 71.66 per cent in 2004.

Of the three geographical regions, this one has the lowest total fertility rate.

All major government health facilities have separate facilities for women.

Normative documents were produced to guide practices by the health services and community actions.

Policies aimed at the prevention of delivery of essential services or assistance, including obstruction of aid delivery or access to food, water, sanitation or essential medical supplies in certain regions or targeting specific groups.

It is hoped that as education spreads and the rural populace becomes aware of the importance of sanitation the situation will improve.

Organization of work of the Committee on Non Governmental Organizations for its 2005 regular session

Estimates indicate that only 40 per cent of the population has access to basic health facilities.

Similarly, the use of satellite communications in telemedicine made quality public health accessible to the underprivileged in areas that had limited health care.

Promotion of the realization of the right to drinking water and sanitation

Wider though still limited access to improved sanitation services.

Promotion of the realization of the right to drinking water and sanitation

Incentives or regulations could encourage or ensure investments in sanitation as part of incremental home improvements.

While hygiene education and awareness raising are often continuing processes requiring long term donor and government commitment, they can catalyse private demand for sanitation services, thus leveraging household and community sanitation investments.

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Promotion of the realization of the right to drinking water and sanitation

Ecological sanitation (ecosan) approaches employed in a number of countries are based on this approach.

The report, entitled Space to promote peace , proposes the implementation of four pilot projects that underline inter agency cooperation on the following themes telemedicine, tele education, disaster management and geospatial infrastructure.