CRC/C/SRB/CO/1 page 13 53. The Committee recommends that the State party promote exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months and strengthen the monitoring capacity for the implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes. The Committee also recommends that increased attention be placed on setting up baby friendly hospitals as a priority. Adolescent health 54. The Committee welcomes the recent laws and strategies and the increased awarenessraising efforts of the State party to protect adolescents, including through the adoption of the new Law on Health Care and Law on Health Insurance. The Committee is concerned at the absence of a comprehensive national strategy or systemic responses for adolescent health and at the extremely high rate of teenage pregnancies. The Committee is also concerned that children’s right to privacy may not be fully respected in schools and health system, particularly in medical check ups and treatments and that a comprehensive mental health policy does not exist. 55. The Committee recommends that the State Party, while taking into account the Committee’s general comment No. 4 (2003) on adolescent health and development in the context of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: (a) Enhance its efforts to address adolescent health issues and to ensure that the programmes for adolescent health are effectively implemented, including through the provision of adequate resources; (b) Ensure that adolescents have access to child-sensitive and confidential counselling services; (c) Take all possible measures to guarantee the conditions for respecting the right to privacy for children; (d) Develop a comprehensive child and adolescent mental health policy which includes all obligatory components, as recommended by WHO, inter alia regarding mental health promotion activities, prevention of mental disorders in primary health care, outpatient and inpatient services for emotional and mental disorders to reduce rates of suicides and institutionalization. Drug, tobacco, alcohol and other substances use 56. The Committee notes that the State party has taken measures to criminalize trafficking of illegal substances. The Committee remains concerned at the high incidence of drug, tobacco, alcohol and other toxic substances use among children. 57. The Committee recommends that the State party take all necessary measures to address the use of illicit substances, alcohol and tobacco by children, inter alia by providing children with accurate and objective information on toxic substances and tobacco use, and that it provide support to those attempting to abandon their use or dependency. Standard of living 58. The Committee notes that many families live in economic hardship with about 10 per cent living below the official poverty line and enduring deprivations of basic services. The

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