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The present report has been prepared in response to Economic and Social Council resolution 1995/55 of 28 July 1995, in which the Council endorsed the terms of reference and the topic-oriented and prioritized multi-year work programme proposed by the Commission on Population and Development at its twenty-eighth session. According to the multi-year work programme, which was to serve as a framework for the assessment of the progress achieved in the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, a new series of reports on a special set of themes would be prepared annually. The Commission on Population and Development, in its decision 2000/1, decided that the special theme for the year 2002 should be “Reproductive rights and reproductive health, with special reference to human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS)”, which is the topic of the present report. This is the second report reviewing reproductive rights and reproductive health. The theme selected for 1996, “Reproductive rights and reproductive health, including population information, education and communication” was the topic of the first annual report. The report provides recent information on selected aspects of reproductive rights and reproductive health covering the following topics: entry into reproductive life; reproductive behaviour; family planning; abortion; maternal mortality and morbidity; sexually transmitted infections; human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS); and reproductive rights. The report also contains a set of annex tables providing data specific to reproductive rights and reproductive health. The report was prepared by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat. Acknowledgements are due to the various United Nations offices, regional commissions and specialized agencies that helped directly or indirectly in its preparation. In particular, chapters V and VI were prepared by the World Health Organization and chapter VII by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. Recognition and appreciation are also extended to Teresa Castro Martin of the Higher Council for Scientific Research, Madrid, for assisting with the substantive editing of the report. |