潘基文根除產科瘻國際日致辭
Message on the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula
根除產科瘻國際日致辭
23 May 2016
2016年5月19日
During my recent visit to Mauritania, I had the opportunity to visit fistula patients at a hospital in Nouakchott. I was moved and impressed by their courage and resilience. It pains me deeply that this preventable and treatable condition still exists in our world, mainly affecting the poorest and most marginalized women and girls, causing them even greater suffering and isolation.
我最近訪問毛里塔尼亞時，有機會在努瓦克肖特的一家醫院探訪瘻管病患者。她們的勇敢和堅毅讓我感動和欽佩。讓我深感痛苦的是，這種可以預防和治療的疾病在我們的世界上仍然存在，主要在影響着最貧窮、最邊緣化的婦女和女童，進一步加劇了她們的痛苦和孤立。
The persistence of fistula in some countries and regions is an indicator of very poor access to quality maternal health services. To end it, we must strengthen health systems and address broader development and human rights issues affecting women and girls: poverty, gender inequality, early marriage, early childbearing, and lack of education.
瘻管病在某些國家和區域持續存在，說明很難獲得高質量的孕產婦保健服務。爲結束這一狀況，我們必須加強保健系統，解決影響到婦女和女童的總體發展和人權問題，包括貧窮、性別不平等、早婚、早育、缺乏教育。
All these aims are part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, agreed unanimously by world leaders in September 2015. Goal 1 on ending poverty, Goal 3 on healthy lives, Goal 5 on gender equality and Goal 10 on reducing inequality should make an enormous contribution to preventing and ending fistula.
所有這些目標都是世界各國領導人2015年9月一致商定的《2030年可持續發展議程》的一部分。關於消除貧窮的目標1、關於健康生活的目標3、關於性別平等的目標5和關於減少不平等的目標10應爲防止和根除瘻管病作出巨大貢獻。
We have seen great progress on maternal and newborn health in recent years, and more than 70,000 women and girls have had their fistulas repaired since UNFPA and its partners launched the global Campaign to End Fistula in 2003. But two million women and girls around the world continue to live with fistula, and there are between 50,000 and 100,000 new cases every year. At present rates, most will die without ever receiving treatment – a heartbreaking and unacceptable situation.
近年來，孕產婦和新生兒保健取得了重大進展。自人口基金及其合作伙伴2003年發起了全球消除瘻管病運動以來，7萬多名婦女和女童的瘻管得到修復。但是，全世界仍有二百萬名婦女和女童患有瘻管病，每年還有五萬至十萬的新病例出現。按目前情況看，其中大多數人將在從未得到治療的情況下死亡——這是令人痛心和不可接受的。
Fistula has virtually been eliminated in most high and middle income countries around the world, so we know that it can be eliminated in every country.
在世界上大多數中高收入國家，瘻管病已近消除。因此，我們知道每個國家都能夠消除這一疾病。
Today, on the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula, I call for an end to fistula within a generation. Let us use the momentum of the Sustainable Development Goals together with strong political leadership, accelerated investment and action, and passionate and committed champions, to achieve this historic and transformative goal.
今天，在根除產科瘻國際日之際，我呼籲在一代人的時間之內消除瘻管病。讓我們藉助可持續發展目標的勢頭，在強有力的政治領導下，以更快速的投資和行動，依託熱情和堅定的倡導者，實現這一歷史性和變革性的目標。
