Accelerate progress—sexual and reproductive health and rights for all: report of the Guttmacher–Lancet Commission

TY - JOUR

T1 - Accelerate progress—sexual and reproductive health and rights for all

T2 - report of the Guttmacher–Lancet Commission

AU - Starrs, Ann M.

AU - Ezeh, Alex C.

AU - Barker, Gary

AU - Basu, Alaka

AU - Bertrand, Jane T.

AU - Blum, Robert

AU - Coll-Seck, Awa M.

AU - Grover, Anand

AU - Laski, Laura

AU - Roa, Monica

AU - Sathar, Zeba A.

AU - Say, Lale

AU - Serour, Gamal I.

AU - Singh, Susheela

AU - Stenberg, Karin

AU - Temmerman, Marleen

AU - Biddlecom, Ann

AU - Popinchalk, Anna

AU - Summers, Cynthia

AU - Ashford, Lori S.

N1 - Funding Information: This report was made possible by support to the Guttmacher Institute from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, UK Aid from the UK Government, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, and The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Funding covered travel, accommodation, and meals for three meetings of the Commission. The funding also supported writing, research assistance time, and coordination of the final report. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect positions and policies of the donors. The project secretariat, housed in the Guttmacher Institute, included Alanna J Galati, who contributed valuable input to the Commission, and Tanwa Onabanjo-Edge, who provided administrative support. Special recognition goes to the research teams at the Guttmacher Institute, African Population and Health Research Center (APRHC), and WHO who contributed to the content of the report: Vanessa Woog (Guttmacher Institute) and Caroline Kabiru (APHRC) on adolescent sexual health; Akinrinola Bankole, Rubina Hussain (Guttmacher Institute), and Chimaraoke Izugbara (APHRC) on men's sexual and reproductive health; Joyce Mumah (APHRC) on contraceptive services; Sophia Chae (Guttmacher Institute) on gender-based violence; Gilda Sedgh (Guttmacher Institute) on safe abortion; Estelle Sidze (APRHC) and Sarah Keogh (Guttmacher Institute) on information, education, and counselling; WHO colleagues on reproductive cancers; Chelsea Polis (Guttmacher Institute) and Abdhalah Ziraba (APHRC) on infertility; and Jacqueline Darroch and Elizabeth Sully (Guttmacher Institute) on estimates of the costs of sexual and reproductive health services. We thank Amanda Berry, Kate Castle, Shivani Kochhar, Grant Kopplin, Rachel Murro, and Tsuyoshi Onda for their research assistance and support to the authors and research teams. We thank Devan Martin and Lou Guzik for developing the Commission website, and Haleigh Kent-Bryant for editing and maintaining the site content. Additional thanks to Michael Moran, the graphic designer who created the graphics for the report. We thank the members of the Advisory Group who provided insights and feedback on the report: Kathryn Anderson, Ipas; Björn Andersson, UNFPA; Anneka Knutsson, UNFPA; Edith Asamani and Ankit Gupta, Women Deliver Young Leaders; Divya Bajpai, International HIV/AIDS Alliance; Carmen Barroso, Independent Accountability Panel; Julia Bunting, Population Council; Helena Choi, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; Althea Anderson, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; Lana Dakan, David and Lucile Packard Foundation; Suzanne Ehlers, PAI; Pia Engstrand, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency; Beth Fredrick, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Helga Fogstad, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health; Pape Gaye, IntraHealth International; Kate Gilmore, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; Lambert Grijns, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands; Stuart Halford, Sexual Rights Initiative; Catherina Hinz, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH; Yilma Melkamu, International Planned Parenthood Federation; Will Niblett, UK Department for International Development; Rose Oronje, African Institute for Development Policy; Nina Strøm, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation; and Sivananthi Thanenthiran, ARROW. We also thank the peer reviewers who provided useful feedback on the earlier submissions of the Commission to The Lancet. Funding Information: We declare the work for the Guttmacher-Lancet Commission on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights was supported by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (The Hague, Netherlands), UK Aid from the UK Government (London, UK), the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Oslo, Norway), The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Menlo Park, CA, USA), the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Stockholm, Sweden), the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (Bonn, Germany), and The David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Los Altos, CA, USA). KS and LS are employees of WHO; the authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this report and they do not necessarily represent the decisions, policy, or views of WHO. All authors declare no competing interests.

PY - 2018/6/30

Y1 - 2018/6/30

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85046811672

U2 - 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30293-9

DO - 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30293-9

M3 - Review article

C2 - 29753597

AN - SCOPUS:85046811672

SN - 0140-6736

VL - 391

SP - 2642

EP - 2692

JO - The Lancet

JF - The Lancet

IS - 10140

ER -