Topic: Reproductive Health
Country: Greece
Delegate Name: Taylor Foster
School: Vicksburg High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Greece position papers GLIMUN 2017 committees
Sexual and reproductive health problems are responsible for one third of health issues for women between 15 and 44 years old. There are many diseases people can get from having bad reproductive health. Women in third world countries suffer a lot too due to rape and lack of supplies such as birth control and condoms. Greece has one of the highest abortion rates in Europe and sex education is still not included in the schools curriculum which can be harmful because then people will not be educated on sex leading to unwanted pregnancy explaining the high amount of abortions. But also Greece has a very low fertility rate.
Public sectors have been required to provide family planning services since 1980 but only 2% of women were accessing these services in 1990. There was a legislation abortion in 1986 but it clearly did not work because today we still have a very abortion rate. Greece also has a very low fertility rate which in 1980 was 2.21 and in the 90’s dropped to 1.29. The UN researches fertility in 30 countries, one being Greece, and found that men and women wanted to have two children but ended up having only one or non at all because of financial which was probably caused by Greece's lack of a good economy.
Greece hopes to further education on reproductive health in schools so that we are able to lower the abortion rates in our country. We also hope to make it more available for third world countries to get abortions and supplies such as condoms and birth control to lower the number of women with sexually transmitted diseases and to lower the number of birth related deaths.
