Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you very much for coming here and providing your expertise.
I had a number of questions. I'll start with Dr. Shaw, because I'm using this document, but please, I welcome input from all three, with any of these questions.
In one of the first slides it is very clear that improved maternal health has been the least addressed issue in terms of the millennium development goals, and you said the most neglected. Now, Ms. Sheffield, you suggested that it was because there hadn't been much investment here. I'm wondering if there are other reasons.
We know, for example, that in a lot of countries women have absolutely no control or say over their own reproductive health. They're living in a world where men dominate them and they have no rights in regard to their sexuality and their bodies. Is that part of it? Or is there something else at work here? Why on earth is this at the bottom in terms of progress?