A/HRC/44/48/Add.1 (g) Consider mental health as a national health priority and ensure the move towards an effective integration of mental health services into general health care and community life. Implement a mental health-care system based on the principles of non-discrimination, participation and respect for the dignity and all rights of users of mental health services. Conduct an evaluation of the national strategic plan on mental health and the mental health-care model and develop a rights-based national child and adolescent mental health programme in line with modern public health principles; (h) Strengthen the monitoring and evaluation system for maternal deaths, including late maternal deaths, and increase efforts to implement maternal mortality reduction plans; (i) Enhance efforts to address gender-based violence and child and adolescent pregnancy as a matter of priority, including through the implementation of the intersectoral policy for the prevention of child and adolescent pregnancy (2018– 2025). (j) Fully implement the Comprehensive Statutory Law for the Prevention and Eradication of Violence against Women with the participation of all the bodies and sectors involved, including the administration of justice, the Public Prosecutor’s Office, and the Ministry of Health, and assign the necessary budget for the Law to be implemented effectively; (k) Urgently amend the Criminal Code in order to decriminalize abortion in cases of rape, incest and severe fetal impairment and create an enabling environment to ensure that every woman and girl has access to safe abortion and post-abortion care, including by ensuring access to services. Respect the obligation of confidentiality in the health-care system, adopt evidence-based protocols and develop human rights training for health providers on their obligations to provide legal abortions, particularly on the grounds of threats to life or physical and mental health, and to respect the privacy and confidentiality of women who use sexual and reproductive health services; (l) Ensure that barriers to girls’ and women’s sexual and reproductive rights are removed, including by providing sexual and reproductive health information, services and goods, in particular comprehensive, age-sensitive and scientifically accurate sex education in schools as a compulsory element of the school curriculum. Provide quality family planning and counselling and modern contraceptive methods, including through increased budgetary allocations and expenditure of public funding; (m) Strengthen programmes in the area of ancestral medicine and work on intercultural health policies for the training, recognition and certification of indigenous midwives. Enhance the participation of indigenous midwives in the national health system, so that traditional systems of medicine can be fully recognized, and ensure that planned births outside hospitals, assisted by indigenous midwives, may also be an affordable and accessible option; (n) Recognize malnutrition as a national priority and adopt a comprehensive policy to address it, with sufficient human and financial resources. Such financial resources should also guarantee the supply of nutrients and minerals to all children and adolescents, especially in schools; (o) Protect children and adolescents from all forms of violence, including sexual violence in schools. Increase investment in services that prevent all forms of violence against children and support parents so that they have the skills to raise their children in non-violent ways; (p) Prohibit violence and any discrimination in the health sector on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression and prosecute perpetrators of violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons, protect victims and ensure access to justice and remedies. Carry out awareness-raising activities for the general public to combat the social stigmatization of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons; 18