Central European countries have only recently moved from centralized system of health-care funding and delivery to a range of institutional and financial arrangements. The different paths chosen have implied different results in terms of available resources, internal efficiency, health-care inequality, and the corresponding incidence of public expenditures. Health systems often fail to provide their citizens with access to sexual and reproductive rights and health. The economy is structured in ways which exclude and adversely include people according to their sexual and gender identities and relationships. Gender based inequalities deprive women of their basic rights (including sexual and reproductive rights), disempower them and constrain their access to resources, opportunities and security. read more |