ANNEX I. >> M  etadata sheets on selected indicators Comments and limitations  Skilled health personnel include only those who are properly trained and who have appropriate equipment and drugs. Traditional birth attendants, even if they have received short training, are not included. The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, in its general recommendation No. 24 (1999), requests States to report on the supply of “free services where necessary to ensure safe pregnancies, childbirth and post-partum periods for women. Many women are at risk of death or disability from pregnancy-related causes because they lack the funds to obtain or access the necessary services, which include antenatal, maternity and postnatal services. The Committee notes that it is the duty of States parties to ensure women’s right to safe motherhood and emergency obstetric services and they should allocate to these services the maximum extent of available resources.” The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, in its general comment No. 5 (1994) on persons with disabilities, states that “women with disabilities also have the right to protection and support in relation to motherhood and pregnancy.” Examples of provisions relevant to the right to health: Universal Declaration of Human Rights, art. 25; International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, arts. 10 (2) and 12; International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, art. 5 (e) (iv); International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, arts. 28 and 43 (1) (e); Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, arts. 12 and 14 (2) (b); and Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, art. 25. This is a Millennium Development Goal indicator. Indicator 10 Proportion of the targeted population covered under public nutrition supplement programmes [e.g., table on the right to adequate food] Definition  The indicator refers to the proportion of the targeted population (e.g., children, pregnant women, aged persons) below a minimum level of daily dietary consumption who are covered under public nutrition supplement programmes (e.g., community-based growth promotion programmes, essential nutrients action programmes, infant and young child feeding strategy, vitamin A policy, etc.) aimed at providing essential vitamins, addressing vitamin deficiency and providing micronutrients that enhance the nutritional value of food, during the specified period. The average energy requirement is the amount of food energy needed to balance energy expenditure in order to maintain body weight, body composition and a level of necessary and desirable physical activity consistent with long-term good health. This includes the energy needed for the optimal growth and development of children, for tissue deposition during pregnancy, and for the secretion of milk during lactation consistent with the good health of mother and child. The recommended level of dietary energy intake for a population group is the mean energy requirement of the healthy, well-nourished individuals who constitute that group. Rationale  In its general comment No. 12 (1999) on the right to adequate food, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights observes that while the problems of hunger and malnutrition are often particularly acute in developing countries, malnutrition, undernutrition and other problems which relate to the right to adequate food, also exist in some of the most economically developed countries. Fundamentally, the roots of the problem of hunger and malnutrition are not lack of food but lack of access to available and adequate food, inter alia because of poverty, by large segments of the world’s population. Therefore, it requires State parties to design and provide nutrition supplement programmes for those who cannot afford or do not have access to nutritional food. Article 12 (2) of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Human Rights Indicators 155