access to basic health care expanded health education the availability of simple costeffective remedies and the reappraisal of primary healthcare services including reproductive healthcare services to facilitate the proper use of women s time should be provided governments should ensure community participation in health policy planning especially with respect to the longterm care of the elderly those with disabilities and those infected with hiv and other endemic diseases such participation should also be promoted in childsurvival and maternal health programmes breastfeeding support programmes programmes for the early detection and treatment of cancer of the reproductive system and programmes for the prevention of hiv infection and other sexually transmitted diseases