Presented by Dr Gauden Galea, Director, and Dr Gunta Lazdane, Programme Manager, Noncommunicable Diseases and Promoting Health through the Life-course, WHO/Europe, at the 66th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe.

1. Action plan for sexual and reproductive health towards
achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
in Europe – leaving no one behind
Dr Gauden Galea, Director
Dr Gunta Lazdane, Programme Manager
Noncommunicable Diseases and
Promoting Health through the Life-course

2. Some key events in global and European sexual
and reproductive health (SRH) policy-making
1994 20042000 20101995 2001 2007 2012 2015 2016
European
SRH
strategy
MDG5
RH target
Health
2020
SDGs and
Survive, thrive,
transform
Beijing
MDGs Global RH
strategy
Global Strategy
for Women’s and
Children’s Health
International
Conference on
Population and
Development
(ICPD)
European
action plan
for SRH
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4. Sexual and reproductive health is an essential part of
health and well-being through the life-course
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5. Sexual health
Physical, emotional, mental and social well-being
related to sexuality
Pleasurable and safe sexual experience
Reproductive health
Family planning
Infertility
Maternal and perinatal health
Abortion
Concept of sexual and reproductive health
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6. SDGs
(2016–2030)
Health and human rights
WHO Constitution (1946)
Health 2020 (2012)
Human Rights Up Front (2013)
Roadmap for Action (2014–2019)
ICPD, Cairo (1994)
Fourth World Conference on
Women, Beijing (1995)
Global Reproductive
Health Strategy (2004)
United Nations Committee on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
General Comment No. 22 (2016)
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7. Photo: DaniloAndjus

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9. Vision
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Photo: WHO/Irina Eramova