Current Status of Sexual Health and Rights Indicators in Iran: An Overview.
Sexual health and rights indicators provide essential tools for monitoring the status of individuals' sexual health and its rights, in various countries. This paper discusses sexual health and rights indicators in Iran. The indicators under study are derived from similar indicators developed by Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Center for Women, for the 15th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development monitoring project. Four HIV-related and three other indicators, including legal age of marriage, median age of women at marriage, and status of violence against women (VAW) were examined in this study. Iran has made several achievements in combating HIV/AIDS, with the focus on injectable drug users, and has countered a series of challenges in the determination of VAW prevalence, the increase of high risk behavior in adolescents, and sexual education for this group. The most important message of this paper is that special attention to challenging issues in Iranian individuals' sexual health could promote their current status.
Maternal-Fetal Medicine Research Centre, Department of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, IR Iran ; Department of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran.
Roksana
R
Janghorban
Research Center for Patient Safety, Department of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran.
Robab
R
Latifnejad Roudsari
Health Sciences Research Center, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Health, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran.
Ali
A
Taghipour
Medical Ethics and Law Research Center, Department of Medical Ethics, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran.
Mahmoud
M
Abbasi
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Health Status Indicators; Violence