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Actions to support universal access of women, girls and youth to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights services

On behalf of the Foundation Lobi Health Center, Suriname, we commit to take actions to support the achievement of universal access to sexual and reproductive health as a part of universal health coverage (UHC), by committing to strive for:
• The provision of integrated adolescent friendly comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights
services for adolescents and youth
• Increased access of youth to Comprehensive Sexuality Education
• Engaging youth...

(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.

Modes of engagement:

• Policy and guidance
• Programmatic action

Quality of life of mothers and children

Increase the quality of life and well-being of mothers and children from gestation to the second year of life of the child during the current administration.

Improve diagnosis of hepatitis C

Diagnose 40,000 cases of hepatitis C annually by the year 2030, and treat 442,000 patients by 2030 to eliminate hepatitis C as a public health problem in the country.

Reduce proportion of children with HIV

Reduce the proportion of children (up to 18 months) infected with HIV from 2.1% (baseline: 2017) to 1.8% by December 2020.

Actions for adolescence and youth

Actions for adolescence and youth: Insert in the policy of life cycles, specific axis dedicated to adolescence and youth, until the year 2022.

Maternal mortality

Maternal Mortality: Reduce the national preventable cause maternal mortality ratio from 62 / 100,000 to 30 / 100,000 live births by the year 2030.

Family Planning

Family planning: Raising copper IUD coverage to 15% of women of childbearing age by 2030.

Enhancing Quality Health Care through Ballanced Theological Perspectives

Faith should not frustrate health care delivery in Ghana

Enhancing Quality Health Care through Balanced Theological Perspectives

Women Dying at the point of childbirth has remained a challenge in Ghana. Despite Governments and other Agencies efforts towards Zero Maternal Death some Christian and other Religious Leaders use Faith Understandings to pressure pregnant women from seeking health care in the Hospitals in the name of prayers and miracles. The assumption is that the Christian God heals only in Church and through Pastors. There is the need for church leaders to come to the understanding that God heals in our...

(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.

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action

Youth Commitments from Ghana: SRHR in humanitarian and fragile context:

Young people will therefore
1. Commit to volunteering in humanitarian situations, and form networks of coalitions to advocate for SRHR in humanitarian settings
2. Through groups and one-on-one conversations, engage in resource mobilization from government, stakeholders, CSOs, and from both local and international organizations to support SRH in humanitarian and fragile contexts
3. Use social media to share their experiences and best practices on SRHR delivery in...

(12) Ensuring that the basic humanitarian needs and rights of affected populations, especially that of girls and women, are addressed as critical components of responses to humanitarian and environmental crises, as well as fragile and post-crisis reconstruction contexts, through the provision of access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health information, education and services, including access to safe abortion services to the full extent of the law, and post-abortion care, to significantly reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, sexual and gender-based violence and unplanned pregnancies under these conditions.

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action