Percentage of satisfied demand for emergency contraception among women aged under 30 years.
Definition:
Proportion of women aged under 30 years who received emergency contraception when needed.
Note:
See the glossary of the report of the Working Group on the definition of emergency contraception. The recommendation is to ask two questions, time-referenced and directed only to the at-risk population, such as: During the last 12 months, did you ever intend or need to use emergency contraception? If not, on that occasion (or at those times), did you finally obtain emergency contraception? Always, sometimes, never (for women who had sexual activity in the last 12 months). In this case, it is appropriate to include those aged under 15, since the desirability of pregnancy is not under discussion.
Type
Quantitative
Priority Measures
B.12 - Sexual health and reproductive health
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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
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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.
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