Most important, the
Reproductive Health Act places important medical decisions throughout pregnancy between a woman and her doctor -- not in the hands of politicians with an ideological or social agenda.
The three year programme includes access to services for survivors of gender-based violence, which is crucial for women and girls to fully realize and exercise their sexual and
reproductive health and rights.
Besides, she added that 72 mobile service units (MSU) that provided
reproductive health services to remote areas where other facilities were not available had also been set up.
HPC Secretary General Abla Amawi stressed the importance of the meeting in enhancing
reproductive health strategies to expand knowledge with the concerned national bodies, noting that the council is in the process of updating the national
reproductive health strategy 2019-2023.
Setting the tone for the discourse, Chairman, House Joint Committee on Health and Women Affairs, Honourable Silas Okunlola noted that the law had become expedient due to the increasing number of sub standard maternity centers, quackery and inadequacies in
reproductive health and maternity services.
It is within this context that the Guttmacher-Lancet Commission on Sexual and
Reproductive Health and Rights released its report in May 2018.
More than 130,000 women received a
reproductive health consultation and cervical cancer screening.
The PHE survey, the first of its kind, involved 7,367 women aged 16 to 64, and will be the basis of a five-year action plan on helping women with
reproductive health issues remain at work.
Today, many governments in the Asia-Pacific consider some sexual and
reproductive health services to be beyond the scope of their health financing priorities.
Yet when Marie Stopes Kenya conducted an educational tour on sexual and
reproductive health at a Catholic-sponsored school in Kitui, there was an uproar.
Health Minister Saira Afzal Tarar stated this while presiding over a study titled 'Strengthening Governance in Health System for
Reproductive Health and Rights (RHR) in Pakistan: An Intervention Case Study' is based on the findings of a four-year intervention (2014-17) carried out in six districts across four provinces of the country with the support of International Development Support Center (IDRC).