As a global public health good, contraception is a core component of the Sustainable Development Goal 3.7 (universal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including family planning). Fundamentally, access to contraceptive information and services is a human right that advances other human right aspects. Quality contraceptive information and services reinforce people’s freedom to determine the number and spacing of their children and offer a range of potential benefits encompassing women’s empowerment, economic development, education and improved health outcomes, including maternal and child health. However, in low- and middle-income countries, around 218 million women of reproductive age still have an unmet need for contraception in 2019 – meeting this need could drop annually an estimated 111 to 35 million unintended pregnancies, 35 to 10 million unsafe abortions, and 299 000 maternal deaths to 113 000.1 Many contraceptive users discontinue their methods or fail to use them optimally.2 3 Quality contraceptive counselling has the potential to play a key role in supporting individuals select a method that matches their needs and expectations, mitigate any side effects, continue their method, or turn to other options, thereby reducing the unmet need for contraception, among other factors.4 There is, however, no standard definition of contraceptive counselling, although the centrality of quality counselling is underscored in different frameworks and programmatic and …

中文翻译：

---

定义避孕信息和服务中的咨询：专家智囊团的成果

作为一项全球公共卫生产品，避孕是可持续发展目标 3.7（普遍获得性和生殖保健服务，包括计划生育）的核心组成部分。从根本上说，获得避孕信息和服务是一项促进其他人权方面的人权。优质的避孕信息和服务加强了人们决定生育数量和生育间隔的自由，并提供了一系列潜在好处，包括赋予妇女权力、经济发展、教育和改善健康结果，包括孕产妇和儿童健康。然而，在低收入和中等收入国家，2019 年仍有约 2.18 亿育龄妇女的避孕需求未得到满足——如果满足这一需求，估计每年意外怀孕人数可能会减少 111 至 3500 万，