Universal SRHR in the context of UHC
Commitment description:Promote actions for young people to have access to age-appropriate information and needed youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services, including the mainstreaming of comprehensive sexuality education into primary and secondary education, for both school teachers and students
Modes of engagement:
- Budgetary and financialAllocate budgetary resources to insure the sustainability of activities related to sexual and reproductive health as well as the acquisition of commodities for family planning
- Policy and guidanceThe development and implementation of policy and guidance related to the best practices of SRH
- Programmatic actionTraining health professionals and empowering girls and women to take ownership of their decisions
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.
