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Health care. INPE notes that, under article 76 of the Code of Penal Enforcement, the prison administration is responsible for making the necessary provision for preventive health care and the promotion and recovery of health. (...) These activities are to continue in 2005. • Ministry of Health: The agreement with the Ministry of Health will facilitate the gradual extension of central government health policies to cover the prison population, and provide hospital care for prisoners of limited means. (...) Nevertheless, INPE is confident that the impact of its new prison policy will soon be visible in improved comprehensive health care for the inmates of all Peru’s prisons.

A/HRC/44/52/Add.2 GE.20-06973 6 parties should take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in the field of health care in order to ensure, on the basis of equality between men and women, access to health-care services, including those related to family planning. 24. (...) In 2017, concerns about the prosecutorial role adopted by some health professionals led the Ministry of Health to publish guidelines for health-care providers, reminding them of their duty to ensure patient confidentiality and to care for women with abortion-related complications (E/C.12/ECU/4, para. 190). (...) The Special Rapporteur was also concerned about the level of overcrowding and the lack of adequate facilities, such as a separate meeting area for receiving visitors, and access to health care, particularly psychosocial care, inadequate re-entry programmes to prevent reoffending and the lack of alternatives to custodial sentences.

In July 2020, following a legal challenge, the Department of Health and Social Care admitted to launching the NHS Test and Trace service for England without carrying out a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) addressing all aspects of the programme.12 A DPIA was later published following the legal challenge,13 but concerns remain about aspects of the contact tracing system.14 The EHRC is also concerned that safeguards in the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 have been weakened by the Coronavirus Act 2020,15 which gave the Home Secretary the power to increase the lifespan of an urgent warrant from five to 12 working days, although such powers are time-limited.16 In Northern Ireland, the Children Social Care (Coronavirus) (Temporary Modification of Children’s Social Care) Regulations (NI) 202017, extended the time period for statutory reviews and permitted the use of remote technology for visits to children in care and inspections of premises, as a response to the pandemic. The NIHRC advised both the Department of Health NI and Committee for Health on the particular need to ensure compliance with the privacy rights of children and young people during a pandemic, in order to ensure full participation in decisions affecting them.18 The most recent proposal to extend 8 Big Brother Watch and Others v the United Kingdom (Grand Chamber), Application Nos. 58170/13, 62322/14, 24960/15, 25 May 2021. 9 Big Brother Watch and Others v the United Kingdom, Application Nos. 58170/13, 62322/14 and 24960/15, Written submissions of the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions, 26 April 2019. 10 Joint Committee on Human Rights (2020), Human Rights and the Government’s Response to Covid- 19: Digital Contact Tracing. 11 Department of Health and Social Care (2020), Health and Social Care Secretary's statement on coronavirus (COVID-19): 18 June 2020; Department of Health and Social Care (2020), Breaking chains of COVID-19 transmission to help people return to more normal lives: developing the NHS Test and Trace service. 12 Government Legal Department (2020), Letter RE: Open Rights Group and the NHS Test & Trace Programme. 13 Department of Health and Social Care (2020), NHS COVID-19 app: privacy information. 14 Joint Committee on Human Rights (2020), The Government’s response to COVID-19: human rights implications, p.50-52. 15 Coronavirus Act 2020, sections 22 and 23. 16 The Investigatory Powers (Temporary Judicial Commissioners and Modification of Time Limits) Regulations 2020. 17 Children Social Care (Coronavirus) (Temporary Modification of Children’s Social Care) Regulations (NI) 2020. 18 NIHRC, ‘Submission on the Children Social Care (Coronavirus) (Temporary Modification of Children’s Social Care) Regulations (NI) 2020’, May 2020.

Right to food, housing and health care .................................................................................... 17 VI. (...) At the same time ‫€9.3 demand for public health-care services increased, as more people could no longer afford private health care. (...) However, figuratively speaking, one could say that the excessive austerity in the public health care sector first killed the nurses and doctors before even getting to the patients.

Moreover, the Working Group learned that funding for gender studies research, for which Poland has been known in the region, is becoming more restrictive, while gender studies scholars report facing a more hostile environment. VI. Health 42. The Constitution provides for universal health care for the citizens of Poland, while the 2004 Act Concerning the Public Funding of Health Care extends the coverage to those granted refugee status or subsidiary protection in Poland. According to the same Act, care for pregnant women and girls during childbirth and confinement is financed through public funds, as are specialist obstetric-gynaecological health-care services for women and gynaecological services for girls. 43. The Working Group acknowledges that the Government has in recent years adopted several measures aimed at protecting women’s health needs, particularly those related to maternal health care, including the recent adoption of standards on perinatal health care, the issuance of recommendations for reducing the number of caesarean sections, and the introduction of a programme to coordinate care for pregnant women.

He also visited two volunteer community clinics in Perama and Helleniko (Attica), which provide free health care to the needy. 3. The Independent Expert is grateful to the Government for its invitation and cooperation during his mission. (...) A/HRC/25/50/Add.1 5 GE.14-11880 family, motherhood and childhood (art. 21.1); the special care for health (art. 21(2) and (3)); the advancement of conditions of employment (art. 22(1)); and social security (art. 22(5)). (...) This requires it to adopt and implement laws and policies that aim to achieve incremental improvements in universal access to basic goods and services, such as health care, education, housing, social security and cultural life.

Since then, health centres aimed at primary and extended care were created in Praia and on São Vicente, the most populous city and island, respectively. (...) All pregnant women have free access to sexual and reproductive health services, which includes a prenatal HIV test and antenatal and postnatal care. (...) Concerns were raised with regard to tertiary health care for the inhabitants of most islands, since there were only two referral hospitals in the country.

Universal health care ...................................................................................... 82 – 83 17 VIII. (...) It addresses the protection and defence of sexual and reproductive health in a comprehensive manner, including access to secure and state-of-the-art contraceptive methods, the training of health professionals, education-related measures in the education system, and the inclusion of coverage by public national health system, as well as the formulation of a national sexual and reproductive health strategy. 26. (...) A/HRC/29/40/Add.3 GE.15-08459 8 autonomous communities by virtue of their respective statutes; these include social policy, education and health care. Furthermore, certain powers are distributed differently among communities, some of which have, for example, more prerogatives than others, such as greater fiscal autonomy and their own police force. 35.

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Access to health care ....................................................................................................... 11 B. (...) Its domains of intervention are education, health care, the labour market, participation in decision-making processes, and gender mainstreaming.6 10. (...) In rural areas, health services, including maternal health-care services, are not sufficiently available or accessible due to distance and costs. 52.