Helping to improve Reproductive Health in Armenia

What is UNFPA doing to help ?

Ongoing assistance:
In its current programme for Armenia, UNFPA aims to improve the use of high-quality reproductive health services, particularly by young people and disadvantaged groups. The Fund will also assist the Government to ensure that reproductive rights are implemented within policy frameworks the educational system.
In order to achieve this, UNFPA plans to:

• Ensure that people of reproductive age have better knowledge of sexual and reproductive health and better access to RH services. This will include engaging in policy dialogue with the Government to increase the budget allocation to reproductive health; developing a long-term strategies for securing reproductive health commodities and replicating specific RH interventions which have already proved successful.
• Increase the availability of youth-friendly services and improve the knowledge and skills of young people so as to prevent unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS, and achieve healthy lifestyles. To do this, UNFPA will provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Education and Science and to the Ministry of Health to develop a health education and family life curriculum for schools and colleges. It will also support out-of-school activities to encourage healthy lifestyles and introduce youth-friendly service protocols. UNFPA will also establish on a pilot basis youth-friendly RH centres operated by the Ministry of Health, NGOs, universities and the army.
• Ensure that Reproductive rights are incorporated into the human rights curriculum and other thematic curricula of educational institutions. To achieve this, UNFPA will help to identify and assess needs, revise curricula and provide technical assistance. UNFPA will also incorporate new materials into the existing programmes to prepare trainers and the Fund will also implement the training programmes.

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