SRHR, key to achieving Sustainable Development Goals 16th Dec 2020 | Source: GNA
Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) by women and girls is key to gender equality and empowerment and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Mrs Georgina Aberese-Ako, the Upper East Acting Regional Director of the Department of Children, has said.
She said if the sexual and reproductive health needs of individuals particularly women and girls were met it would empower them to be more assertive, improve upon family and community wellbeing, boost economic gains and save the lives of women and children.
She noted that it would enhance safe sexual life leading to the prevention of teenage pregnancies among adolescents, curb sexual and gender-based violence, and the spread of HIV/AIDS and other Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs).
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The Alliance for Reproductive Health Rights (ARHR) has appealed to government to allocate more funds towards adolescent health issues in the country. The ARHR also asked government to develop health policies and programmes centred on adolescents for long term impact, especially at deprived areas. Ms Rhema Andah, a Project Officer of ARHR, in a statement copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra, said: Good quality standards for adolescent responsive health systems are necessary and can only be achieved by investing in an adolescent responsive workforce, evidence-based intervention and removal of systematic barriers.