A/CONF.171/13 English Page 47 Objectives 7.14. The objectives are: (a) To help couples and individuals meet their reproductive goals in a framework that promotes optimum health, responsibility and family well-being, and respects the dignity of all persons and their right to choose the number, spacing and timing of the birth of their children; (b) To prevent unwanted pregnancies and reduce the incidence of high-risk pregnancies and morbidity and mortality; (c) To make quality family-planning services affordable, acceptable and accessible to all who need and want them, while maintaining confidentiality; (d) To improve the quality of family-planning advice, information, education, communication, counselling and services; (e) To increase the participation and sharing of responsibility of men in the actual practice of family planning; (f) To promote breast-feeding to enhance birth spacing. Actions 7.15. Governments and the international community should use the full means at their disposal to support the principle of voluntary choice in family planning. 7.16. All countries should, over the next several years, assess the extent of national unmet need for good-quality family-planning services and its integration in the reproductive health context, paying particular attention to the most vulnerable and underserved groups in the population. All countries should take steps to meet the family-planning needs of their populations as soon as possible and should, in all cases by the year 2015, seek to provide universal access to a full range of safe and reliable family-planning methods and to related reproductive health services which are not against the law. The aim should be to assist couples and individuals to achieve their reproductive goals and give them the full opportunity to exercise the right to have children by choice. 7.17. Governments at all levels are urged to institute systems of monitoring and evaluation of user-centred services with a view to detecting, preventing and controlling abuses by family-planning managers and providers and to ensure a continuing improvement in the quality of services. To this end, Governments should secure conformity to human rights and to ethical and professional standards in the delivery of family planning and related reproductive health services aimed at ensuring responsible, voluntary and informed consent and also regarding service provision. In-vitro fertilization techniques should be provided in accordance with appropriate ethical guidelines and medical standards. /...