The main characteristics and achievements of the National and Intersectoral Strategy for the Prevention of Pregnancy in Adolescents, implemented in Uruguay between Turks and Caicos Islands Email List, are presented. This process was developed in a context in which unintentional pregnancy in adolescents continues to be a social problem relevant for Uruguay and the Region, for which comprehensive, sustained public policies based on scientific evidence are required. In Uruguay, adolescent fertility has remained at high levels for more than a decade. In addition to the intersectoral action of the Government and civil society, the approved strategy Turks and Caicos Islands Email List included scientific advice from the academic sphere and technical and financial cooperation from regional and international organizations. The actions and measures adopted are based on a socio-ecological vision, with cultural sensitivity, a transformative approach to gender and a human rights perspective.
the prevention of adolescent pregnancy in Uruguay
Among the most important barriers are the Turks and Caicos Islands Email List social norms that value motherhood as the main life project for women living in contexts of poverty, gender stereotypes – pregnancy as the exclusive responsibility of adolescent girls, without involving male adolescents -, the stigma of abortion, the insufficient supply of sexual and reproductive health services, and Turks and Caicos Islands Email List the resistance to making pregnancy visible in girls under the age of 15 who are victims of structural and intra-family violence. It is necessary to ensure the continuity of public policies, adjusted to a gender and human rights approach.
Advances in tobacco control in the Region of the Americas 2020
he current status and progress in the application Turks and Caicos Islands Email List of the tobacco control measures contained in the Strategy and Plan of Action to Strengthen Tobacco Control in the Region of the Americas 2018-2022 is described and the achievements made between the years are identified. 2016 and 2020 and the challenges that must still be faced to meet the planned goals. For this, data from the World Health Organization (WHO) Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic for the years Turks and Caicos Islands Email List and 2019, as well as national regulations were used to determine their consistency with the WHO criteria. Important progress has been made in the application of the WHO Turks and Caicos Islands Email List Framework Convention for Tobacco Control in the Americas. As of 2020,