A number of African gender advocates in both government and civil society have put up spirited fight to have the United Nations create a Fund to address millennium development goal issues of reproductive health and gender empowerment. To be known as the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Fund, resources channelled to this Fund are to be used to lower the high maternal and child mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa, ensure gender empowerment and environmental goals are implemented with speed. “It looks like we are not getting our priorities right. Although other Funds are important, the one to save lives is more important,” says Dr Richard Muga, the Director of National Council for Population and Development. But the United States, especially the Bush Administration and other pro-life advocates, are said not to be warming up to the idea.