{"id":64,"date":"2026-03-24T12:09:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cels.org.ar\/mida\/?post_type=informe&p=64"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:09:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:09:57","slug":"argentina-en-report-1-sexual-and-reproductive-rights","status":"publish","type":"informe","link":"https:\/\/cels.org.ar\/mida\/en\/informe\/argentina-en-report-1-sexual-and-reproductive-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual and Reproductive Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

General Overview<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the field of sexual and reproductive rights, we record the highest number of setbacks across the various rights monitored during this period, with a singular characteristic: several of the most profound deteriorations are not the result of major visible normative reforms but of the silent dismantlement of public policies, the defunding of programs, and institutional hollowing-out. This mode of regression \u2014 which advances without great publicity and without a formal legislative act that would make it more easily challengeable \u2014 is particularly damaging and difficult to reverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Dismantlement of Care Policies<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The report “La cocina de los cuidados” (“The Kitchen of Care”), produced by CELS with quarterly snapshots, offers the most systematic tracking of this process. In October 2024 \u2014 ten months into the administration \u2014 a survey of 49 care policies showed that 24 had been repealed or discontinued, and 18 were at risk or underimplemented: only 7 remained in force. By March 2025, the situation was even more complex: of 50 policies surveyed, only 5 remained standing \u2014 90% had been cut, dismantled, repealed, or was at risk. The June 2025 report \u2014 eighteen months into the administration \u2014 found that only 4 of the 50 surveyed policies (8%) remained in force, and that 2,866,000 people had lost at least one care policy they had been beneficiaries of. The speed and depth of this dismantlement has no precedent in the recent history of Argentine social policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sexual and Reproductive Health: Defunding and State Withdrawal<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In April 2024, presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni announced the “redesign” of the ENIA adolescent pregnancy prevention plan, which included the termination of contracts for 619 people \u2014 nearly 80% of the total workforce. A year later, official data confirmed that the distribution of condoms and contraceptives had fallen 64% under the Milei government compared to the previous period. This defunding also affected the procurement of supplies to guarantee access to legal abortion, rapid HIV diagnostic tests, viral load testing reagents, and prevention materials. The combination of these measures \u2014 the defunding of access to legal abortion and HIV health care, the drop in contraceptive distribution, and the dissolution of a team working at the federal level on adolescent pregnancy prevention \u2014 constitutes a first-order setback in the right to sexual and reproductive health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regressive International Positions<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In November 2024, Argentina was the only country at the UN to vote against a resolution to eliminate and prevent violence against women. This position \u2014 recorded by MIDA as a threat, since it does not modify the domestic normative framework but constitutes a relevant political signal \u2014 fits within the Milei government’s strategy of using multilateral forums to project its conservative gender agenda internationally. In January 2025, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Milei attacked the homosexual community and “gender ideology” in his speech \u2014 a declaration the president himself made as a representative of the Argentine State before a global audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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