WHO has launched a new tool intended for front-line health care providers to help women initiate contraception in humanitarian and emergency settings.
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Amid an unprecedented global refugee crisis, girls are suffering the most, according to a new report released on International Day of the Girl by the humanitarian organization CARE.
In total, no group was more severely affected than women and girls, who represent around 60% of those infected, more than half of whom are of childbearing age.
United Nations entities recall that a central principle of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is to “ensure that no one is left behind” and to “reach the furthest behind first”. Recognizing that discrimination in health care settings is a major barrier to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), United Nations entities commit to working together to support Member States in taking coordinated multisectoral action to eliminate discrimination in health care settings.
This is an editorial addressing the challenges Syrian refugee adolescent girls are facing in accessing sexual and reproductive health information and services and their consequences such as unintended pregnancies and child and forced marriage
The statement is a powerful call to action to Governments to do more to tackle homophobic and transphobic violence and discrimination and abuses against intersex people, and an expression of the commitment on the part of UN entities to support Member States to do so.