Rights of rural women 2016, para. 39a
Párrafo- Original document
- Document type
- Observación general / recomendación
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[States parties should safeguard the right of rural women and girls to adequate health care, and ensure:] That high-quality health-care services and facilities are physically accessible to and affordable for rural women, including older women, heads of household and women with disabilities (provided free of charge when necessary), culturally acceptable to them and staffed with trained medical personnel. Services should provide: primary health care, including family planning; access to contraception, including emergency contraception, and to safe abortion and high-quality post-abortion care, regardless of whether abortion is legal; prenatal, perinatal, postnatal and obstetric services; HIV prevention and treatment services, including emergency intervention following rape; mental health services; counselling on nutrition, the feeding of infants and young children; mammography and other gynaecological examinations services; the prevention and treatment of non-communicable diseases, such as cancer; access to essential medicines, including pain relief; and palliative care;
- Document legal status
- Derecho dispositivo no negociado
- Document body
- Órganos de Tratados: CEDAW - Comité para la eliminación de la discriminación contra la mujer
- Document means of adoption
- N/A
- Temas
- Igualdad & inclusión
- Salud
- Personas afectadas
- Mujeres
- Niñas
- NNA
- Personas con discapacidad
- Personas de edad
- Document year
- 2016
- Tipo de párrafo
- Conclusión / Recomendación
- Reference
- CEDAW General Recommendation No. 34, Rights of rural women (2016), para. 39a.
- Paragraph info
- Conclusion / Recommendation
- Paragraph number
- 39a