Abstract
In 1994, the landmark Cairo Conference on population and development promised reproductive health for all. Ten years later, what has been achieved?
Highlights
About a decade ago, I went wandering around Cairo’s City of the Dead
I was certainly surprised by my discovery; in retrospect, I should not have been
That part of Cairo is home to hundreds of thousands of people for whom looking after the dead is a way of life
Summary
I went wandering around Cairo’s City of the Dead This might sound like a grim bit of tourism, but my connection to that vast necropolis runs deep—quite literally, as my family is buried there. After visiting their grave, I rambled through the city’s dusty alleyways, past hundreds of years of history. That part of Cairo is home to hundreds of thousands of people for whom looking after the dead is a way of life Their fertility invigorates the funereal air: the caretaker of my family’s tomb, for example, had a blooming family of his own living near the grave. Where better to offer family planning than in a place so poor that reproduction seemed more a matter of fate than choice?
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