Sexual Health for the Millennium: A Declaration and Technical Document; 2008

This document specifies and elaborates on eight distinct but inter-related aspects of sexual health that play important roles in fostering human development. To meaningfully and effectively contribute to the achievement of the MDGs, sexual health promotion programs must address the totality of human sexuality. For example, to effectively promote HIV sexual risk reduction, sexual health promotion programs must reflect and incorporate the reality that sexual relationships include gender and power dynamics and that the desire for intimacy and pleasure plays an instrumental role in shaping sexual behavior. In addition, all governments, international agencies, private sector, academic institutions and society at large, sexual health organizations must develop an intersectoral approach which promotes sexual health as a distinct and essential strategy in attaining the MDGs.