Reproductive health strategy to accelerate progress towards the attainment of international development goals and targets

Overview

Adopted by the 57th World Health Assembly in 2004, this strategy is intended for a broad audience of policy-makers within governments, international agencies, professional associations, nongovernmental organizations and other institutions.

Part I sets out the major discrepancies between global goals and global realities, and describes the principal barriers to progress, noting in particular the inequities related to gender and poverty and the exposure to risk of adolescents. Part II lays out the strategy, which is guided by principles based on international human rights. It highlights the core aspects of reproductive and sexual health services and proposes ways for countries and WHO to take innovative approaches. It concludes by reaffirming WHO’s corporate commitment to collaboration with its partners in order to encourage and support Member States in their efforts to attain the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed goals and targets relating to reproductive and sexual health.