The main barrier to information about health issues including reproductive health is illiteracy.

Reproductive health and HIV AIDS neglected issues of concern for women and girls

The Programme aims to promote adolescent health standards through health education on health related issues in general, and on reproductive health in particular.

Reproductive health

Reproductive health.

Reproductive health

Reproductive health

The Committee recommends that the State party further improve the adolescent health programme addressing, specifically, reproductive health issues, sex education and mental health.

These health concerns are not controversial and do not come under the same political scrutiny as do reproductive and sexual health issues.

National reproductive health programme.

The Reproductive Health Project.

The Reproductive Health Project.

UNFPA provided training to teachers and counsellors in the public school system on issues relating to reproductive health and assisted in developing a curriculum on sexual and reproductive health education for the Ministry of Education.

The adolescent reproductive health project, which is aimed at promoting the participation of a large number of young people in sports and socio educational activities, with a view to increasing their awareness of reproductive health issues

Some information sessions have been held in girl's schools under the National AIDS Control Programme about reproductive health issues.

The Committee is concerned that insufficient attention has been given by the State party to adolescent health issues, including developmental, mental and reproductive health concerns.

However, the programmes covered under Communicable and Non Communicable Diseases, Reproductive Health, Community Health and Preventable Cancers are all relevant issues for women as are the issues contained under the Legislative Policy of the Ministry of Health.

Ensuring access to reproductive health

Women and the Reproductive Health

To prevent reproductive health risks.

Ensuring access to reproductive health

Reproductive Health Project 2001 6.83 billion.

The Population and Reproductive Health Project

Reproductive health and poverty are linked

Law of the Republic of Tajikistan on reproductive health and reproductive rights (2002)

Issues linked to the reproductive health of the aged are increasing in line with the growing size of this target group.

Reproductive health (maternal and child health, family planning, adolescent health, men's health, women's health, safe motherhood).

There are other concerns with regard to reproductive health relating to the health of the aged, abortion issues, cervical and breast cancer, infertility, gender based violence and discrimination.

The reproductive health Islam project, which is aimed at involving religious leaders in population policy decisions, particularly decisions concerning reproductive health.

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, UNFPA has sought to ensure that young people's reproductive health issues are included in national processes and frameworks.

The Committee remains concerned about the low level of awareness of the general public in HKSAR of sexual and reproductive health issues.

(c) Ensuring equal access to reproductive health

Informal briefing on reproductive health commodity security

Developing specific reproductive health services for men.

Informal briefing on reproductive health commodity security

Information on reproductive health family life education.

To date more than 700 thousand businesses have agreed to set up crèches in their workplaces. Other efforts depend on the use of the mass media to inform people on issues related to reproductive health and women's right to reproductive health services.

This program is designed for teenager ages 12 19 years who want to learn more about reproductive sexual health and other related issues.

More must be done to address the issues of teenage pregnancy, abortion and contraceptive use in Samoa, particularly since the school curriculum did not cover reproductive and sexual health issues.

Table 5.5 Reproductive health activities in 2000 2001

Access to reproductive health services is very weak.

Adolescent reproductive health problems have also attracted attention.

Improving the quality of priority reproductive health services.

Moreover, to ensure that men and women have access to information on reproductive health, all public hospitals and health care centres provide patients with information and reproductive health services.

The Association of Family Planning and Reproductive Health (known as The Flower of Fern ) offered lectures for young people on healthy lifestyles and reproductive health.