At the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994, governments of 179 countries adopted the programme of action, agreeing to deliver universal access to comprehensive reproductive health care, including voluntary family planning and safe pregnancy and childbirth services. Twenty-five years later, at the Global Summit in Nairobi, the world community made strong commitments and agreed on a visionary agenda to accelerate progress, with a stronger focus on universal access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) as part of universal health coverage (UHC) under the following principles.