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Table 1 Paraguay’s laws and policies reviewed

From: How do national contraception laws and policies address the contraceptive needs of adolescents in Paraguay?

Official title of laws and policies

Brief Titlea

1. National Plan of Sexual and Reproductive Health 2014–2018

National Plan of SRH

2. Law 4313: To ensure funding for reproductive health programs and the provision of a kit for delivery, Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare (2011)

SRH Funding Law

3. National Family Planning Guide and STI Management (2006)

FP/STI Guide

4. Resolution 146 on the obligation to give access to health services with quality, without discrimination, with confidentiality and guarantee of professional secrecy (2012)

SRH Quality Service Resolution

5. Adolescence Clinical Manual: integrated management of adolescents with a focus on rights (2015)

Adolescent Clinical Guideline

Other laws that were reviewed for background analysis of the legal framework on SRH:

6. Law 2.169/03 which sets the age of majority (2003)

Age of Majority Law

7. Decree 773 for national day of family planning (2013)

National Day of Family Planning

8. \Plan of sexual reproductive health 2009–2013.

Previous National Plan of SRH

9. Law 1680/01. Code of childhood and adolescence - Convention on the rights of the child (2001)

Code of Childhood-Adolescence

10. Sanitary Code of Paraguay, Law 836 (1980)

Sanitary Code

11. Normative for humanized service in post abortion services (2012)

Humanized Post Abortion

  1. aIn the following sections of the paper, the normative guidance documents analysed will be referred to as ‘brief title’