Major Group: Women
Intervention from Women Major Group in Thematic Session Thursday 4 May 2006
I am happy to see that we have finally succeeded in putting indoor air pollution that concerns
women lives on the CSD development agenda. However, we bring to your attention two gaps in
the discussion:
1) The need to consider the entire cooking- fuel chain that starts from collecting and gathering
biomass, to transportation, processing and finally cooking. While we have drawn attention to the
impact of the last element vis-à-vis cooking; we need to think about the health impacts of
gathering fuels vis-à-vis bruises, snakebites and encounters with wide animals; transportation
vis-à-vis, backaches, neck-aches and keen and feet injures.
2) There is a need to improve the health care of those women that are already suffering from
respiratory infections due to IAP, in terms of the treatment and prevention programmes. The
capacity of heath careers need to be increased to be able to effectively handle this problem.
These two points need to be emphasised in the research and action agenda.
I am happy to see that we have finally succeeded in putting indoor air pollution that concerns
women lives on the CSD development agenda. However, we bring to your attention two gaps in
the discussion:
1) The need to consider the entire cooking- fuel chain that starts from collecting and gathering
biomass, to transportation, processing and finally cooking. While we have drawn attention to the
impact of the last element vis-à-vis cooking; we need to think about the health impacts of
gathering fuels vis-à-vis bruises, snakebites and encounters with wide animals; transportation
vis-à-vis, backaches, neck-aches and keen and feet injures.
2) There is a need to improve the health care of those women that are already suffering from
respiratory infections due to IAP, in terms of the treatment and prevention programmes. The
capacity of heath careers need to be increased to be able to effectively handle this problem.
These two points need to be emphasised in the research and action agenda.