The Refugees Proclamation recognizes refugees’ access to health care. Under Article 25, it provides that ‘every recognized refugee and asylum seeker shall have access to available health services in Ethiopia’. Refugees’ and asylum-seekers’ access to health care services in Ethiopia is not subject to any condition in the sense that the standard of treatment is not the most favored foreigners. Instead, refugees are accorded the same rights as Ethiopian citizens for purpose of access to health care services.

Major strategic initiatives for Family Planning and Reproductive Health of HSTP II 2020/21-2024/25, stipulates universal access to quality and comprehensive rights-based family planning information and services at all levels of health care delivery system, with emphasis to post-pregnancy family planning services, expand family planning and sexual and reproductive health services to workplaces, private health facilities, people with special needs, universities and colleges, and in humanitarian settings, and expand access to quality comprehensive abortion care services.

Health Equity Strategic Plan 2020/21-2024/25 also calls for increase investment in reproductive health services and programs for building the universal coverage and reproductive health rights. Addressing people with special need and congregate setting (refugee, IDP, geriatric centre, prison, etc) with tailored health service approach.