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Promote and provide universal access to prevention interventions for all
Scale up the provision of and delivery of prevention commodities, SRH information and services, BCC interventions and related services.
Ensure universal access to treatment, care and support services for all without discrimination or barriers
Promote respect for human rights in dealing wiht HIV ad AIDS issues at policy and programme levels
Alleviate the socioeconomic effects of HIV and AIDS at individual, household and community levels
Integrate and align policies, strategies and resources for HIV within a responsive health system and other sectors
General Objectives
Jamaicans enjoy equitable and rights-based access to high-quality, high impact and sustainable integrated sexual and reproductive health and HIV services.
Beneficiaries
All personspeople living with and affected by HIV and AIDS, key populations and vulnerable groups including youth/adolescents living with HIV, and those infected prenatally,
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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.38 - Prevention, timely detection and comprehensive treatment of HIV / AIDS and ITS
Promote the prevention and timely detection of and guarantee universal access to comprehensive treatment for HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections and eliminate the stigma and discrimination to which persons living with the virus are often subjected.
D.39 - Detection of HIV / AIDS and ITS in pregnant women
Strengthen measures for detection of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections in pregnant women and for prevention of the vertical transmission of the virus.
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.