Rate of use of contraceptive methods by women and men, by method (modern or traditional).
Definition:
- Women: Ratio between (i) numerator: total number of 15-49-year-old sexually active women reporting using contraceptive methods or having their partner use them, and (ii) denominator: total number of sexually active women aged 15-49 years.
- Men: Ratio of (i) numerator: total number of men aged 15 years or over who are sexually active and report using contraceptives, or that their partner is using them, and (ii) denominator: total number of men aged 15 years or over who are sexually active. The indicator is calculated separately for each sex and is expressed per 100 sexually active men or women, respectively, according to corresponding ages.
Notes:
For more on modern contraceptive methods see the glossary.
A wider age range for men should be considered.
Type
Quantitative
Priority Measures
B.11 - Education for sexuality
11
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.
B.12 - Sexual health and reproductive health
12
Implement comprehensive, timely, good-quality sexual health and reproductive health programmes for adolescents and young people, including youth-friendly sexual health and reproductive health services with a gender, human rights, intergenerational and intercultural perspective, which guarantee access to safe and effective modern contraceptive methods, respecting the principles of confidentiality and privacy, to enable adolescents and young people to exercise their sexual rights and reproductive rights, to have a responsible, pleasurable and healthy sex life, avoid early and unwanted pregnancies, the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, and to take free, informed and responsible decisions regarding their sexual and reproductive life and the exercise of their sexual orientation.
B.14 - Prevention of adolescent pregnancy
14
Prioritize the prevention of pregnancy among adolescents and eliminate unsafe abortion through comprehensive education on emotional development and sexuality, and timely and confidential access to good-quality information, counselling, technologies and services, including emergency oral contraception without a prescription and male and female condoms.
B.15 - Prevention of subsequent adolescent pregnancy
15
Design intersectoral strategies to help young women avoid subsequent pregnancies, including antenatal, childbirth and post-partum care, access to contraceptive methods, protection, support and justice.
D.44 - Effective access to modern contraceptive methods
44
Guarantee effective access to a wide range of culturally relevant, scientifically sound, modern contraceptive methods, including emergency oral contraception.
D.46 - Resources for universal access to sexual and reproductive health
46
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
85
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.
87
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
92
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
95
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.
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