General Comment Provisions related to Reproductive Rights 4. To provide essential drugs, as from time to time defi ned under the WHO Action Programme on Essential Drugs;7 5. To ensure equitable distribution of all health facilities, goods and services; 6. To adopt and implement a national public health strategy and plan of action, on the basis of epidemiological evidence, ­addressing the health concerns of the whole population; the strategy and plan of action shall be devised, and periodically reviewed, on the basis of a participatory and transparent process; they shall include ­methods, such as right to health indicators and benchmarks, by which p ­ rogress can be closely monitored; the process by which the ­strategy and plan of action are devised, as well as their content, shall give particular attention to all vulnerable or marginalized groups.” In Paragraph 44 the “Committee also confi rms that the following are obligations of comparable priority: 1. To ensure reproductive, maternal (pre-natal as well as post-natal) and child health care; 2. To provide immunization against the major infectious diseases occurring in the community; 3. To take measures to prevent, treat and control epidemic and endemic diseases; 7 Among the drugs listed on the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (16th list (updated), March 2010) are anti-retroviral drugs (HIV medicine), medicine for neonatal care (caffeine citrate used to treat breathing problems in premature infants) and contraceptives, including p-pills, p-injections, intrauterine devices, condoms, diaphragms and implantable contraceptives 132