Date
The National Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) Policy was designed to facilitate universal access to SRH. Universal access to
SRH is one of the indicators to measure progress towards the achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The policy takes into consideration not only adults, but the rights of children and adolescents in accessing safe SRH information and care.
General Objectives
The National Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy seeks to ensure that every person in Trinidad and Tobago in need of SRH information and services has access to comprehensive SRH Services through the Public Health System at service delivery points.
Beneficiaries
Entire population
Country
Type
Politics
Responsible institution
Topics / Chapters
Main Priority Measure
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.34 - Policies for the exercise of sexual rights
Promote policies that enable persons to exercise their sexual rights, which embrace the right to a safe and full sex life, as well as the right to take free, informed, voluntary and responsible decisions on their sexuality, sexual orientation and gender identity, without coercion, discrimination or violence, and that guarantee the right to information and the means necessary for their sexual health and reproductive health.
D.35 - Access to information
Review legislation, standards and practices that restrict access to sexual and reproductive health services, including the provision of comprehensive user-friendly services for adolescents and youth, and guarantee access to full information on all of the service options available to all persons, without any form of discrimination, in order to ensure that the highest international standards of protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms are met in the region.
D.37 - Universal access to quality sexual and reproductive health services
Guarantee universal access to good-quality sexual health and reproductive health services, bearing in mind the specific needs of men and women, adolescents and young people, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons, older persons and persons with disabilities, with special attention to vulnerable persons, persons living in rural and remote areas and to the promotion of citizen participation in the follow-up to commitments.
D.43 - Comprehensive health care in the reproductive process for all women
Ensure that all women have effective access to comprehensive health care during the reproductive process and specifically to skilled, institutional, compassionate obstetric care and to the best possible maternal health services during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium, as well as to services that include the termination of pregnancy in those cases where the law provides for such services, and guarantee universal access to assisted fertility treatments.
D.44 - Effective access to modern contraceptive methods
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
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.