D.6
Rate of use of contraceptive methods by women and men, by method (modern or traditional).

Definition:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

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.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.
Topic
D. Sexual and reproductive health