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While resources should not be diverted from dealing with other major health threats, implementing the

MISP is essential to reducing mortality and morbidity experienced particularly by women and girls. There are multiple competing health priorities in an emergency, such as addressing diarrhea, measles, acute respiratory infections, malaria and malnutrition, but specific aspects of RH, as expressed in the MISP, also must be addressed. Rather than trying to implement a broad range of RH activities, limiting the scope of RH in the emergency phase to the MISP ensures focused attention on essential actions in emergencies where human and material resources are scarce.