Teen Network Magazine january issue | Page 17

- 0 2 - The World Health Organization (WHO) assessed in 2008 that " Reproductive and sexual ill-health accounts for 20% of the global burden of ill-health for women, and 14% for men.” This is to say that, despite the fact that everyone has to be involved women are the most affected. Depriving them the rights to make crucial choices about their bodies and future this is because women are the ones that bear and nature children, it is them that play a big part in bringing up a child. Reproductive Health and Gender Equality go together. Everyone has to take part in ensuring that  healthy nation. cervical cancer and such.  This calls for Therefore reproductive health should be making improvements and looked at as something that affects both strengthening of services such as health men and women, whether a child or an and education systems and making it old person, sort of a lifecycle. The easy to access these services.  Making challenges people face at different times sure that there is availability of essential of their lives such as family planning, health supplies that will help deal with getting ways to prevent sexually reproductive health issues like family transmitted diseases and early diagnosis planning and contraception methods and treatment of reproductive health  and medicines to be supported. illnesses like