Sexual and reproductive health for all: a call for action

Maternal Mortality and Female Literacy Rates in Developing Countries during 1970–2000: A Latent Growth Curve Analysis

“…Reproductive rights are of two types: rights to make choices with regard to all aspects of reproduction and the right to have access to quality reproductive health care [61][62][63]. However, the number of reproductive choices available is predicated on women's capacity to acquire and utilize information necessary to promote reproductive health [64][65][66]. Female literacy rate increases are positively correlated International Journal of Population Research 9 with reproductive health care utilization and reduction in maternal mortality ratios [32,67,68].…”

Youth’s Responsible Sexuality and Capability Approach: A Conceptual Framework

“…Indeed, in 1994, at the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo [11], the International community, with 179 member countries committed to making sexual and reproductive health effective for all age groups by 2015. Five years later, after a review of progress in the implementation of the Program in Cairo, the commitment extended to health, sexual and reproductive rights [12,13]. Under the auspices of the United Nations General Assembly, the African continent, like other regions and through the African Union, is committed to implementing these resolutions on sexual and reproductive rights while simultaneously contextualizing them and putting them in various reference documents, the best known of which is the Maputo protocol with its action plan [14,15].…”

“…The framework of analysis that we are going to describe did not have the same objectives as the work of Nussbaum [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] and the team of Pavia [7]. In order to examine the responsible sexuality for young people through the Capability Approach, while taking account of these works, we decided to stick to a logical structuring between the definition of the Capability Approach, the factors of variation in the benefit that an individual can derive from the use of the resources made available to him or her and the fundamental principles of right and freedom with regard to sexual, reproductive health and rights.…”

Substantive Equality and Maternal Mortality in Nigeria

“…Certainly, the problem with Nigeria is not that of want of resources but rather a case of misplaced priorities and corruption on the part of its rulers (Nnamuchi;2008). It has been observed that to know the priority of a state, one needs to monitor what it spends its money on (Coen et al 2004: 12;Fathalla et al 2006). Therefore, the Nigerian government will need to show more commitment to meeting the health needs of women by improving its allocation to the health sector, particularly sexual and reproductive health care services.…”