and Quality Assurance Policies Future Considerations Ongoing research and evaluation is an essential component of any policy or service provision. Research helps to identify new trends and concerns while assessing need for further services and interventions. Therefore, all programmes and interventions carried out with the purpose of enhancing people’s sexual health, ranging from health promotion to educational and counselling needs, and from secondary and tertiary prevention interventions to curative medical care, need to be audited and reviewed. Such an exercise will assess their degree of success and effectiveness in achieving pre-established goals and targets. This should in turn guide future interventions and allocation of funds. Enhanced co-operation with countries, the EU and the WHO in the context of research initiatives needs to be actively sought and developed. The recommendations pertaining to research initiatives have been noted along this document. The consolidation of the recommended various research initiatives by one steering entity is being advised, in that such consolidation is believed to maximise efficiency of use of resources in curtailing duplication, repetition and wastage of limited resources available to pursue the noted research initiatives. The terms of reference of the referred steering entity and the members within it are to be determined accordingly, following wider consultation, after the publication of this policy. Quality service delivery standards and protocols with pre-established targets and objectives need to be introduced for quality assurance in clinical service provision, including for contact tracing pre- and post- test counselling (such as in genito-urinary clinic service, sexual health clinics, sexual violence / rape response services, etc.) and for sexuality and relationships education provision (such as in schools). Reference has been made already to the characteristic transient and dynamic nature of sexual health. In view of this nature, issues, challenges and facets associated with and arising around sexual health will always be in a state of flux and evolvement in the future. The phenomena of globalisation and increased people migration across countries is increasingly
and Quality Assurance Policies Future Considerations Ongoing research and evaluation is an essential component of any policy or service provision. Research helps to identify new trends and concerns while assessing need for further services and interventions. Therefore, all programmes and interventions carried out with the purpose of enhancing people’s sexual health, ranging from health promotion to educational and counselling needs, and from secondary and tertiary prevention interventions to curative medical care, need to be audited and reviewed. Such an exercise will assess their degree of success and effectiveness in achieving pre-established goals and targets. This should in turn guide future interventions and allocation of funds. Enhanced co-operation with countries, the EU and the WHO in the context of research initiatives needs to be actively sought and developed. The recommendations pertaining to research initiatives have been noted along this document. The consolidation of the recommended various research initiatives by one steering entity is being advised, in that such consolidation is believed to maximise efficiency of use of resources in curtailing duplication, repetition and wastage of limited resources available to pursue the noted research initiatives. The terms of reference of the referred steering entity and the members within it are to be determined accordingly, following wider consultation, after the publication of this policy. Quality service delivery standards and protocols with pre-established targets and objectives need to be introduced for quality assurance in clinical service provision, including for contact tracing pre- and post- test counselling (such as in genito-urinary clinic service, sexual health clinics, sexual violence / rape response services, etc.) and for sexuality and relationships education provision (such as in schools). Reference has been made already to the characteristic transient and dynamic nature of sexual health. In view of this nature, issues, challenges and facets associated with and arising around sexual health will always be in a state of flux and evolvement in the future. The phenomena of globalisation and increased people migration across countries is increasingly
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