Sexual and reproductive health

Technical cooperation with countries

The Department of Reproductive Health and Research (RHR) works closely with countries to strengthen their capacity to undertake research and programme activities in sexual and reproductive health, both to respond to national needs and to contribute to regional and global efforts.

Goal: To ensure that each country has adequate capacity to develop and carry out the research and programme development activities required to elevate the national sexual and reproductive health programme to a key position for contributing to the achievement of the MDGs and other internationally agreed development goals and their respective targets.

National-level monitoring of the achievement of universal access to reproductive health

WHO Reproductive Health Strategy

This strategy is the first global strategy on reproductive health. It was adopted by the 57th World Health Assembly (WHA) in May 2004.