Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Between 2000 and 2020, maternal mortality declined by one third globally, from 339 to 223 deaths per 100,000 live births, but progress has stalled since 2015. Find gender aggregated health data on page 10.

The manual is a practical introductory guide to strengthen and build capacity for quantitative inequality monitoring in SRMNCAH. It guides users through the processes of setting the scope for inequality monitoring, deciding on the best available data for monitoring, performing data analysis, and reporting findings.

The 2022–2030 global health sector strategies on, respectively, HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections guide the health sector in implementing strategically focused responses to achieve the goals of ending AIDS, viral hepatitis B and C and sexually transmitted infections by 2030

This research is designed to improve the understanding of social determinants of institutional delivery also referred as facility-based delivery with the aim to explore the community perceptions of facilitators and barriers on maternal and child health service utilization and generate the knowledge on socio-cultural and behavioral barriers and enablers for facility-based delivery.

The objective of this report is to provide an overview of the current landscape of MPTs, products that simultaneously prevent HIV, other STIs, and/or unintended pregnancy, and assess their relevance and potential challenges for L/MICs. The report aims to support the timely introduction of these innovations and identify challenges, including in research and development (R&D) or related to market entry, which may hamper the adoption and impact of MPTs in L/MICs if not promptly addressed.

The 2021 global progress report on HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections, is an opportunity to take stock of the progress achieved in addressing these diseases to date, the setbacks caused by the pandemic, and the lessons learned for the coming decade

Early and forced marriage, forced sterilization, criminalization of mother-to-child HIV transmission and forced abortion—as well as inequality, repressive gender roles and intimate partner violence—have been identified as deep-rooted factors that limit the control that women and girls have over their own sexuality, health and rights.

Cuba, with its highly developed health-care infrastructure and universal health coverage, had reduced the rate of HIV transmission from mother to child to about 2% and eliminated congenital syphilis by 2012, following a concerted effort with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) (6). Cuba requested validation of status of elimination in late 2013, before the WHO guidelines had been finalized, becoming a pioneer for the process as a result.

Discrimination and violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people in Nigeria are far too common. Human rights violations against LGBTI people are fuelled by coercive and discriminatory legislation: same-sex sexual relations are criminalized in the country, and in some states in northern Nigeria where Shari’a law is applied, these acts are punishable by death