CRC/C/CRI/CO/4 (b) Design and implement an intersectoral public policy for health, sexual and reproductive rights aimed at adolescents within and outside the educational system and taking into account sexual and reproductive rights, healthy sexuality, prevention of unplanned pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS, and the accessibility and use of condoms and other contraceptives; (c) Adopt guidelines informing doctors when they can legally perform abortions in cases of risk to the life and health of mothers and clarifying that the health exception in article 121 of the Penal Code applies, inter alia, to pregnancies resulting from sexual violence and to those pregnancies involving a severely malformed fetus, and ensure the right of pregnant women and adolescents to appeal decisions of doctors; (d) Expand legal abortion in cases of rape and intra-family sexual violence and improve the availability and quality of post-abortion care in public hospitals; (e) Ensure that girls and adolescents have free and timely access to emergency contraception and raise awareness among women and girls about their right to emergency contraception, particularly in cases of rape; (f) Include systematic, comprehensive and scientific-based education on sexual and reproductive health, including on HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases as well as on contraception, in regular school curricula and ensure that adequate resources are allocated for such education; and (g) Ensure that the Institute for Alcoholism and Pharmacological Dependency extends its plans to care for child victims of drug and substance abuse, including the use of appropriate diagnostic tools and rehabilitation services, beyond the recently created specialized centre for children who consume drugs. Standard of living 65. The Committee is concerned that the State party has been affected by the global economic situation and that poverty and inequalities have increased (with one out of three children living in poverty). It notes that efforts are being made to protect social investment and to extend the coverage of basic services for children to all cantons, but remains concerned that structural measures to stimulate economic development and raise the standard of living, particularly in rural areas, with a view to reducing poverty and improving children’s access to basic services such as adequate housing, food, water, sanitation, electricity and education, need to be put in place. 66. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Continue to implement programmes for targeted and universal social and economic benefits for children and their families, in particular in relation to services that are not accessible to them because of poverty, vulnerability and social exclusion, including the “Avancemos” Programme and the “Red de Cuido y Desarrollo Integral”; (b) Ensure that benefits in the social services are equitable, thus requiring territorially differentiated policies, as well as the promotion of gender-sensitive and child-friendly employment and support to working parents; and (c) Accelerate its efforts to develop a single register of social security benefits granted to individuals, including children and/or their parents, and collect disaggregated information on social investment destined to childhood and adolescence, as well as on the efficiency of the executing agencies, their financing and the effectiveness and appropriateness of investments made. 15