"The present organizations and networks from Latin America and the Caribbean in this meeting made up of women from regional networks throughout the region on the theme of Cairo +15 manifest our profound concern that 15 years after the Cairo Program of Action was agreed to, Latin America and the Caribbean is still the region with the greatest socio-economic inequality in the world."

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Summary: A literature review commissioned by the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI).  The study shows that a key factor in determining whether countries attain the MDGs is their response to HIV/AIDS.

In 1994, at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, Egypt, the world's governments and civil society committed to an action plan to ensure universal access to reproductive health information and services, uphold fundamental human rights including sexual and reproductive rights, alleviate poverty, secure gender equality, and protect the environment.