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Article: Reproductive health policy in Norway.
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- Reproductive Health Matters
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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IN the May 2005 issue of RHM, Befit Austveg and I had a paper on the history of how reproductive health was improved in Norway in the 20th century and how that relates to Norway's development aid policy. (1) Policies in Norway are very much geared towards reproductive rights, including the right to induced abortion, contraceptive services and sex education. Norway also supported reproductive rights around the time of the ICPD in 1994 in Cairo. Since then, Norway has remained a large donor to multilateral reproductive health organisations such as UNFPA, while some donors have reduced their funding. The size and coverage of our bilateral support has decreased, however, and ...