This General Comment aims to assist State parties’ implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and fulfilment of their reporting obligations under the Covenant...It concerns primarily on States parties’ obligation to ensure every individual’s enjoyment of the right to sexual and reproductive health required under article 12.[T]he right to the highest attainable standard of health not only includes the absence of disease and infirmity and the right to the provision of preventive, curative and palliative health care, but it extends to the underlying determinants of health...[T]o realize the right to sexual and reproductive health, States parties must address the social determinants as manifested in laws, institutional arrangements and social practices that prevent individuals from effectively enjoying in practice their sexual and reproductive health...States must prohibit and prevent private actors from imposing practical or procedural barriers to health services, such as physical obstruction from facilities, dissemination of misinformation, informal fees and third-party authorization requirements...[Furthermore,]States must effectively monitor and regulate specific sectors, such as private health care providers, health insurance companies, educational and child-care institutions, institutional care facilities, refugee camps, prisons and other detention centres, to ensure that they do not undermine or violate individuals’ enjoyment of the right to sexual and reproductive health...