Protecting and ensuring SRHR in UHC
Commitment description:As a member of the Alliance for Gender Equality and UHC, the UN Foundation will promote an inclusive definition of UHC that protects and ensures SRHR. And through our partnership on Heroines for Health, together with Women in Global Health, the UN Foundation works to elevate SRHR champions, including frontline health workers like midwives.
Mode of engagement:
- Policy and guidanceThe UN Foundation will promote an inclusive definition of UHC that protects and ensures SRHR.
Achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health as a part of universal health coverage (UHC)(3) Zero preventable maternal deaths and maternal morbidities, such as obstetric fistulas, by, inter alia, integrating a comprehensive package of sexual and reproductive health interventions, including access to safe abortion to the full extent of the law, measures for preventing and avoiding unsafe abortions, and for the provision of post-abortion care, into national UHC strategies, policies and programmes, and to protect and ensure all individuals’ right to bodily integrity, autonomy and reproductive rights, and to provide access to essential services in support of these rights.
