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including non-governmental organizations, as appropriate, in ensuring that
legislation is non-discriminatory;
(d) Provide gender-sensitive training to all actors, including police,
prosecutors and the judiciary, in dealing with victims of violence, particularly
women and girls, including sexual violence.
79. (a) Adopt a holistic approach to women’s physical and mental health
throughout the life cycle, take further measures to redesign health information,
services and training for health workers in order to make them gender-sensitive,
promote gender balance at all levels of the health-care system, and reflect women’s
perspective and right to privacy, confidentiality, voluntary and informed consent;
(b) Reinforce efforts to ensure universal access to high quality primary
health care throughout the life cycle, including sexual and reproductive health care,
no later than 2015;
(c) Review and revise national policies, programmes and legislation to
implement the key actions3 for the further implementation of the Programme of
Action of the International Conference on Population and Development4 adopted by
the General Assembly at its twenty-first special session, paying particular attention
to achieving the specific benchmarks to reduce maternal mortality, to increase the
proportion of births assisted by skilled attendants, to provide the widest achievable
range of safe and effective family planning and contraceptive methods and to reduce
young people’s risk of HIV/AIDS;
(d) Strengthen measures to improve the nutritional status of all girls and
women, recognizing the effects of severe and moderate malnutrition, the lifelong
implications of nutrition and the link between mother and child health, by promoting
and enhancing support for programmes to reduce malnutrition, such as school
meal programmes,
mother-child-nutrition
programmes
and
micronutrient
supplementation, giving special attention to bridging the gender gap in nutrition;
(e) Review with the full participation of women and monitor the impact of
health-sector reform initiatives on women’s health and their enjoyment of human
rights, in particular with regard to rural and urban health service delivery to women
living in poverty, and ensure that reforms secure full and equal access to available,
affordable and high-quality health care and services for all women, taking into
account the diverse needs of women;
(f) Design and implement programmes with the full involvement of
adolescents, as appropriate, to provide them with education, information and
appropriate, specific, user-friendly and accessible services, without discrimination,
to address effectively their reproductive and sexual health needs, taking into account
their right to privacy, confidentiality, respect and informed consent, and the
responsibilities, rights and duties of parents and legal guardians to provide in a
manner consistent with the evolving capacities of the child appropriate direction and
guidance in the exercise by the child of the rights recognized in the Convention on
the Rights of the Child, 13 in conformity with the Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women 8 and ensuring that in all actions
concerning children, the best interests of the child are a primary consideration.
These programmes should, inter alia, build adolescent girls’ self-esteem and help
them take responsibility for their own lives; promote gender equality and
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