Percentage of men and women who practise the basic elements of sexual and reproductive health prevention and self-care. | Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development

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Percentage of men and women who practise the basic elements of sexual and reproductive health prevention and self-care.

Definition:

Ratio between (i) numerator: population aged 15 years and over who state that they practise the basic elements of prevention and self-care of their sexual and reproductive health, and (ii) denominator: population aged 15 years and over. This indicator is expressed per 100 people aged 10 and over.

Notes:

“Reproductive health is a general state of physical, mental and social well-being. It is the ability to enjoy a satisfying sex life without risk of procreation, and the freedom to decide whether or not to procreate.”

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) states that reproductive health includes a set of methods, techniques and services that contribute to reproductive health and well-being by avoiding and resolving reproductive health problems that contribute to the prevention and self-care of sexual and reproductive health. See http://www.unfpa.org.mx/salud%20sexual%20y%20reproductiva.php and also http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/topics/countries/strategic_approach/en/.

It is agreed that more work is needed on the metadata to arrive at an expert, politically validated and measurable definition of “basic elements of sexual and reproductive health prevention and self-care”.

Type

Quantitative

Priority Measures

B.11 - Education for sexuality

Ensure the effective implementation from early childhood of comprehensive sexuality education programmes, recognizing the emotional dimension of human relationships, with respect for the evolving capacity of boys and girls and the informed decisions of adolescents and young people regarding their sexuality, from a participatory, intercultural, gender-sensitive, and human rights perspective.

D.33 - Guarantee sexual and reproductive health and rights

Promote, protect and guarantee sexual health and rights and reproductive rights in order to contribute to the fulfilment of persons and to social justice in a society free from all forms of discrimination and violence.

D.41 - Prevention and self-care in sexual and reproductive health in men

Promote prevention and self-care programmes for the sexual health and reproductive health of men.

D.46 - Resources for universal access to sexual and reproductive health

Guarantee sufficient financial, human and technological resources in order to provide universal access to sexual health care and reproductive health care for all women, men, adolescents, young people, older persons and persons with disabilities without any form of discrimination.

H.85 - Indigenous peoples rights

Respect and implement the provisions of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, as well as Convention No. 169 of the International Labour Organization on indigenous and tribal peoples —and call on those countries that have not already done so to sign it and ratify it— adapting legal frameworks and formulating the policies necessary for their implementation, with the full participation of these peoples, including indigenous peoples that live in cities.

H.87 - Traditional medicine and indigenous health practices.

Guarantee indigenous peoples’ right to health, including sexual rights and reproductive rights, and their right to their own traditional medicines and health practices, especially as regards reducing maternal and child mortality considering their socio-territorial and cultural specificities as well as the structural factors that hinder the exercise of this right.

I.92 - Respect for and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Program of Action with the full participation of people of African descent

Respect and implement the provisions of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action adopted at the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, by adapting the legal frameworks and formulating the policies necessary for their implementation, with the full participation of Afro-descendent persons.

I.95 - Right to health in Afro-descendant people

Ensure that Afro-descendent persons, in particular Afro-descendent girls, adolescents and women, can exercise the right to health, especially the right to sexual health and reproductive health, taking into account the specific socioterritorial and cultural features and the structural factors, such as racism, that hinder the exercise of their rights.

I.97 - Afro-descendant women and living conditions

Ensure that policies and programmes are in place to raise the living standards of Afro-descendent women, by fully enforcing their rights, in particular their sexual rights and reproductive rights.

Topic

D. Sexual and reproductive health