United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has published a report on Efficiency of Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) spending in Maldives. The report is a collaboration between United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Ministry of Health of Maldives aimed to promote equity in access to Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) and information.
In furtherance of this collaboration, UNFPA is supporting the study of SRH spending, an economic evaluation of benefits against costs of SRH service delivery as planned in the National Reproductive Health Strategy of 2014-2018. The main goal of the report is to provide an evidence-base, useful for supporting policy decision options for improving health outcomes. The evidence obtained is expected to support the optimisation of investments for health for an improved balance of curative and preventive health thereby improving efficiency in public health investments.
In conclusion, the report noted that upscaling the adolescent and youth friendly option is estimated to be the most cost-effective strategy to scale up SRH in Maldives which involve streamlining the existing health care infrastructure and interventions to more efficiently deliver sexual and reproductive health services and actively targeting youths and adolescents.