What is it about?
Challenges visually impaired women, adolescent girls and youth face restrict them from reaching and getting sexual and reproductive health services and information. This has led to some women who are visually impaired having unwanted babies and adolescent girls and youth dropping out of school due to unplanned pregnancies. This paper discusses the sexuality and sexual experiences of visually impaired persons in a school for the blind as well as challenges women who are visually impaired encounter when accessing sexual and reproductive health services in Ghana and proposes the introduction of the TeleLink and the Medical Companion concepts as one of the means to addressing this.
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Why is it important?
A target of Goal(3) of the Sustainable Development Goals on Good health and well-being requires states to “ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes by 2030.” In order to attain “universal access”, the varied needs of all persons have to be addressed adequately and obstacles to reproductive health access for women with disabilities eliminated.
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I hope this article contributes to freeing or opening wider the gateway of reproductive health access for blind and partially sighted women in particular and women with disabilities in general since this continues to be a fairly neglected area.
Alimata Thelma Flora Abdul Karimu
University of Cape Coast
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This page is a summary of: Exploring the sexual and reproductive health issues of visually impaired women in Ghana, Reproductive Health Matters, June 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09688080.2017.1333893.
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