Sexual and reproductive health is very personal, so people may have
trouble finding or asking for accurate information about it. This may
also help explain why these issues are still not addressed openly, and
services are inadequate, fragmented and unfriendly in some countries in
the European Region. Complications of pregnancy and childbirth, unsafe
abortions, reproductive tract infections, sexual violence and women
dying from avoidable cancer are just a few of the problems in this area.
WHO/Europe assists countries to evaluate their situations and to choose
the optimal way to improve them.
Definition
People are sexual beings all their lives. The purposes of sexual health care should be the enhancement of life and personal relationships, and not merely counselling and care related to procreation or sexually transmitted infections. Reproductive health implies that people are able to have a responsible, satisfying and safe sex life and that they have the capability to have children and the freedom to decide if, when and how often to do so.
Men and women should have access to the safe, effective, affordable and acceptable methods of fertility regulation of their choice, and to appropriate health care services that will enable women to go safely through pregnancy and childbirth, and provide couples with the best chance of having healthy infants.
Problems
Women are over four times as likely to die in childbirth in the newly independent states of the former USSR as in the European Union. In some countries unsafe abortion causes over 20% of all registered maternal deaths, and eastern Europe has the highest abortion rate in the world. Many people still lack information on, for example, sexuality, family planning, pregnancy and childbirth, sexually transmitted infections, infertility, cervical cancer prevention, menopause.
In response, national and regional health policies and programmes increasingly give explicit attention to sexual and reproductive health.
Definition
People are sexual beings all their lives. The purposes of sexual health care should be the enhancement of life and personal relationships, and not merely counselling and care related to procreation or sexually transmitted infections. Reproductive health implies that people are able to have a responsible, satisfying and safe sex life and that they have the capability to have children and the freedom to decide if, when and how often to do so.
Men and women should have access to the safe, effective, affordable and acceptable methods of fertility regulation of their choice, and to appropriate health care services that will enable women to go safely through pregnancy and childbirth, and provide couples with the best chance of having healthy infants.
Problems
Women are over four times as likely to die in childbirth in the newly independent states of the former USSR as in the European Union. In some countries unsafe abortion causes over 20% of all registered maternal deaths, and eastern Europe has the highest abortion rate in the world. Many people still lack information on, for example, sexuality, family planning, pregnancy and childbirth, sexually transmitted infections, infertility, cervical cancer prevention, menopause.
In response, national and regional health policies and programmes increasingly give explicit attention to sexual and reproductive health.
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