The country is progressing towards elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV and Syphilis with strong partnership of the Government, development partners and key population groups.
(1) Intensify our efforts for the full, effective and accelerated implementation and funding of the ICPD Programme of Action, Key Actions for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action of the ICPD, the outcomes of its reviews, and Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.
Services for prevention and control of Reproductive Organ Malignancies will be further expanded with new interventions and technologies.
(1) Intensify our efforts for the full, effective and accelerated implementation and funding of the ICPD Programme of Action, Key Actions for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action of the ICPD, the outcomes of its reviews, and Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.
Ensuring quality and timely information for monitoring of reproductive health services is a country priority; further encourage conducting research in priority areas. Electronic web-based information systems will be expanded with networking and data sharing among stakeholders.
(1) Intensify our efforts for the full, effective and accelerated implementation and funding of the ICPD Programme of Action, Key Actions for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action of the ICPD, the outcomes of its reviews, and Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.
Primary Health care will be further strengthened for elimination of Gender based violence while care provision for survivors will be expanded through Mithuru Piyasa Centres and safe homes. Multi-sectoral approach to address GBV will be strengthened with the partnership of Government, NGOs and community groups.
(5) (a) Zero sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices, including zero child, early and forced marriage, as well as zero female genital mutilation; and (b) Elimination of all forms of discrimination against all women and girls, in order to realize all individuals’ full socio-economic potential.
Sexual and reproductive health education in schools, and adolescent and youth friendly health services will be further strengthened with the partnership of Ministry of Health, Education, Vocational training and Youth affairs.
(4) Access for all adolescents and youth, especially girls, to comprehensive and age-responsive information, education and adolescent-friendly comprehensive, quality and timely services to be able to make free and informed decisions and choices about their sexuality and reproductive lives, to adequately protect themselves from unintended pregnancies, all forms of sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices, sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS, to facilitate a safe transition into adulthood.
A separate national budget line with adequate budgetary allocation will be formulated for Reproductive Health to support implementation at national and sub national levels by 2020. We will sustain and continue the budgetary provisions to already existing priority areas such as humanitarian response and crisis management.
(6) Using national budget processes, including gender budgeting and auditing, increasing domestic financing and exploring new, participatory and innovative financing instruments and structures to ensure full, effective and accelerated implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action.
New legal enactments will be made available to ensure Reproductive Health rights are protected in all ethnic groups, socially disadvantaged populations, adolescents and youth. Country will ensure that SRH needs of special population groups are equally addressed.
(1) Intensify our efforts for the full, effective and accelerated implementation and funding of the ICPD Programme of Action, Key Actions for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action of the ICPD, the outcomes of its reviews, and Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.
Unmet need for family planning accounts for 20% of maternal deaths, and currently the country is experiencing social and religious threats for the National FP program. Hence the government will take actions to strengthen the Family Planning program with adequate financing for advocacy, capacity building, community empowerment and making safe commodities available across the country.
(2) Zero unmet need for family planning information and services, and universal availability of quality, affordable and safe modern contraceptives.
We are committed to reduce our maternal mortality ratio to the SDG goal of 20 per 100,000 LB by 2030 and priorities are set to address the cause specific mortality and regional disparities. Coverage and quality improvement in health care and expansion of emergency obstetric care specifically targeting for vulnerable and marginalized women will be attended to achieve zero preventable maternal mortality
(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.
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(5) (a) Zero sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices, including zero child, early and forced marriage, as well as zero female genital mutilation; and (b) Elimination of all forms of discrimination against all women and girls, in order to realize all individuals’ full socio-economic potential.