National Sexual Reproductive Policy
2014
2014
National Sexual Reproductive Policy
National Department of Health
National Department of Health
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June 2014
National Department of Health23
Facility-
based
maternal deaths
review
when deaths are initially identified at the facility level but such reviews are not only concerned on the treatment and care provided at health facility level, but also with identifying the combination of factors at the facility and in the community that contributed to the death, and which ones were avoidable
Family Planning
Family planning allows people to attain their desired number of children and determine the spacing of pregnancies. It is achieved through use of contraceptive methods and the treatment of infertility.
Long term family
planning methods
Long-term methods (intrauterine devices, implants and sterilization, usually used to limit childbearing, and short-term methods (pills, condoms, spermicides, injectable, other modern methods and all traditional methods, better suited for women who want to delay but not forfeit having a child.
Permanent family
planning methods
Vasectomy, and tubal ligation
Gender:
The social constructed roles, behaviours, activities and attributes that are considered by a society to be appropriate for its men and women. People are born female or male but learn to be girls or boys who grow into women and men. This learned, socially reinforced, and often legally enforced behaviour delineates gender roles and relationships.
Gender based
violence
The United Nations defines violence against women as any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.
Maternal death: The death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and the site of pregnancy, from any causes related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes
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