The Ministry of Health and Population organized a workshop to raise awareness of population issues, and to identify and unify media messages related to the issue, in a way that contributes to reaching different expressions, especially if the content of the message is unfamiliar or new, in implementation of the recommendations of the World Conference on Population, Health and Development, which Egypt held at the beginning of the year. Last September.
Abdul Ghaffar added that the workshop addressed the diversity of sources of health awareness, the characteristics of the media personality, the implementation steps for any media news, and the effect of words on the individual, pointing out that the media, with its various types of audio, visual and print, constitute an effective role in spreading health awareness among different social segments. By broadcasting and displaying programs related to health aspects.
For his part, Dr. Tariq Tawfiq, Deputy Minister of Health and Population for Population Affairs, said that there is an imbalance between population growth and natural resources, which affects the state’s economy, stressing the need for the birth rate to be controlled to match the state’s resources and income, stressing the importance of the role of the media in raising awareness of the population issue. .
In turn, Dr. Tej Ram Jat, Director of Reproductive Health Programs at the United Nations Population Fund, said: “We need to accelerate work towards achieving the vision of the International Conference on Population and Development Program as well as achieving the sustainable development goals by 2030, and the media plays a pivotal role in conveying information, raising awareness and encouraging change.” "The positive impact among the population, as well as all stakeholders involved, so we all have to remember one key message: population and development is about improving the quality of life of the population and not about their numbers."