Salud y sistemas de salud
Why companies need to take sexual and reproductive health seriously
In recent years, sexual and reproductive health movements have transformed workplace norms around the world.
Natalia Kanem
In a career spanning over three decades, Dr. Natalia Kanem has dedicated her life to improving
the health and lives of women and children by championing their rights and choices. She
leverages her combined expertise in science, public health and philanthropy to advance the
reproductive health and rights of women and girls, and to uphold the human dignity of all. As
United Nations Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations
sexual and reproductive health agency, Dr. Kanem oversees its life-saving policy, development
and humanitarian work in over 120 countries, with the aim of assuring that ‘every pregnancy is
intended, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.’ She is also a
Dag Hammarskjöld press freedom advisor.
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