State of World Population 2012 - UNFPA Haiti

Association of gender equitable attitudes and behavioursrelated to sexual and reproductive healthPercentage of men who say the following are importantScore on Genderequitable men scaleCouplecommunicationSexualsatisfactionAccompanied toprenatal visitGEtting anHIV TESTBrazil LOW 87 80 58 28MODERATE 84 91 68 31HIGH 87 95 87 38Chile LOW 50 50 27 21MODERATE 86 83 83 24HIGH 90 88 89 31Croatia LOW 70 61 69 5MODERATE 88 67 84 3HIGH 95 79 94 13India LOW 73 98 91 20MODERATE 65 98 91 12HIGH 64 98 93 6Mexico LOW 71 86 75 16MODERATE 85 91 87 15HIGH 91 96 94 31Rwanda LOW -- 83 -- 85MODERATE -- 85 -- 87HIGH -- 90 -- 89Source: International Center for Research on Women and Promundo, 2011.programme integrated gender equality into sexualand reproductive health via three strategies:• Providing information and clinical servicesfor women, information, services andcounselling that helped women identify theroot causes of the sexual health problems intheir communities;• Training community workers to create moregender-sensitive service agencies and providers,including teachers, police, judges, churchgroups and so on who could develop morewoman-friendly practices;• Changing gender attitudes in communitiesby stimulating public debate on the situationof women through brochures, street theatre,community meetings and other ways ofdisseminating information.The programme found that a specific focuson gender-based violence (particularly when42 CHAPTER 3: CHALLENGES IN EXTENDING ACCESS TO EVERYONE