Rising rates of sexually transmitted infections across Europe have alarmed public health experts.

This assessment must include relevant factors that may assist in identifying and screening out persons whose donation could present a health risk to others, such as the possibility of transmitting diseases (such as sexually transmitted infections), or health risks to themselves (e.g. superovulation, sedation or the risks associated with the egg collection procedure or the psychological consequences of being a donor).

C. whereas women and adolescent girls are more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS than men and boys, both because they are more biologically susceptible to sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, with one in four women in South Africa being infected with HIV by the time they are 22 years old and studies from Mali and Kenya showing that young women aged 15-24 are four times more likely to be infected than young men of the same age, and because of the lack of sufficient and relevant prevention options as well as gender and cultural inequalities, domestic violence and ignorance,

(19) Reproductive health providers have a major role to play in the prevention of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections,

(14) The sustained supply, availability and affordability of more effective and acceptable methods of contraception and protection from sexually transmitted infection, including HIV/AIDS, is crucial in achieving the ICPD goals; it denotes an adequate supply and choice of quality reproductive health-related supplies for every person who needs them.

Governments should promote equal participation of women and men in all areas of family and household responsibilities, including responsible parenthood, sexual and reproductive behaviour and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases.