In practice, family planning services ignored men and concentrated their awareness-raising activities on women although sexuality and procreation were clearly issues for both sexes.

(b) Facilitate greater access to free primary health services; reduce the incidence of maternal, child and infant mortality; prevent and combat malnutrition, especially among vulnerable and disadvantaged groups of children; promote proper breastfeeding practices; reinforce family planning services; and increase access to safe drinking water and sanitation;

The young child survival and development programme aims to achieve the following results: (a) reduced malnutrition resulting from inappropriate breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices in identified intervention areas; (b) iodine deficiency disorders and vitamin A deficiency to be virtually eliminated, and iron-deficiency anaemia significantly reduced; (c) reduced disparities and improved routine immunization in low-performing areas; (d) increased access in targeted areas of Upper Egypt to the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) Plus package, including improved community and family practices and perinatal services; (e) improved access to early childhood development (ECD) services; and (f) reduced frequency of water-borne diseases or illnesses resulting from poor sanitation in semi-urban slums and targeted rural communities.