Today (12 / 5), Minister of Health, dr. Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih, MPH, Dr. PH and State Minister for Women Empowerment & Protection Linda Amalia Sari, S. IP signed the Agreement on Implementation of Gender Mainstreaming in Health. The event was attended by Echelon 1 and 2 of the Ministry of Health and continued by the Advocacy of Gender Responsive Budget Implementation in the Field of Health.

In his speech, Minister of Health, had applied Gender Mainstreaming since 2004, in line with the formation of Team of Gender Mainstreaming in Health. Team is responsible for developing programs and planning gender responsive. Ministry of Health (MOH) Commitment in Mainstreaming Gender (PUG) put MOH as one of seven Ministry / Agency as plicate Gender Responsive Budget (ARG).

The high commitment of the Ministry of Health in Gender Mainstreaming has also been awarded the Anugerah Parahita Ekapraya from President to the Minister of Health on Mother's Day Memorial last year.

Gender equality is the concept of conditions of men and women in obtaining their rights as human beings in accordance with social and cultural conditions.

According to Minister of Health, to tackle the problem of gender inequality and discrimination, need to be responsive to all the efforts that provide a consistent and systematic attention to the differences between women and men in society.

Related to today's advocation meeting, Minister of Health hopes,all the Main Unit in Ministry of Health follow up by applying the Gender Responsive Budgeting in supporting efforts to accelerate achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) related to health, especially MDG 5 target with the target lowered maternal mortality rate to three per four of them.

Minister of Health added, one with the target of MDG targets to decrease the prevalence of malnutrition in children under five years has reached 18.4%, these figures exceed the 2015 MDG target of 18.5%. MDG Goal 4 to reduce child mortality target and measles immunization in infants is estimated to be achieved in 2015.

MDG 5 targets of deliveries assisted by health workers 74.87% (SUSENAS 2008) still require special attention to achieve the 2015 target of 90% and unmet need *) KB equal 9.1% (IDHS 2007) decreased to 5%. Similarly with MMR target that requires effort even harder to achieve the 2015 target is lowered from 228 per 100,000 live births (IDHS 2007) to 102. While the MDG goal 6 with the main target of controlling the spread of HIV / AIDS still require an even harder effort.

One of the challenges faced to achieve the MDG target is the large gap, both among the public health status of the province, the socioeconomic and educational levels and between urban and rural. Social factors affecting these disparities, among others, injustice and discrimination, which impacts on gender relations, roles, status and responsibilities of individuals, families and communities, said Minister of Health.

The purpose of agreement is the improvement of planning and budgeting policy, programs and activities in the field of gender responsive health.

The scope of the agreement includes planning and gender responsive budgeting; provision of disaggregated data on health; PUG team performance improvement in health, and increase advocacy, socialization, communication, information and education about PUG.

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*) Unmet Need KB = Married women who do not want any more children or wanted to KB but did not use contraception, with various excuses.