Women demand that :
1. The right to health be enshrined in the Constitution and must be enforceable.
2. The right to health should include universal access to treatment for people living with
HIV and AIDS especially women.
3. Government must provide adequate, affordable and accessible health services including
information, education and communication programmes to women
4. Government must provide, that is, establish and strengthen women’s access to prenatal , delivery and post natal health services and nutritional information for women
during pregnancy and while they are breast feeding
5. They should have the right to control their fertility
6. They must have the right to decide whether to have children, the number of the children
and the spacing of children
7. The right to information on all reproductive health issues including HIV and AIDS must
be made available to women including the right to family planning education.
9. The right to self protection and to be protected against sexually transmitted infections
and HIV.
10.The right to access safe abortion.
11.They must have the right to be informed of their health status and the health status of
their partner particularly in cases of sexually transmitted infections and HIV and AIDS.
12.The right for women to control their bodies and their sexuality
13.The non discrimination clause should also include non discrimination on the grounds of
HIV status.
14. Government should put in place measures to ease the burden of caregiving that is
placed on women caring for people living with HIV and AIDS
5. The Differently- Abled
The Differently-abled women demand:
1. Discrimination of all spheres of life on the basis of one’s disability status should be
prohibited. This include the elimination of derogatory terms used to refer to persons
living with disabilities
2. The right to education should be made accessible to people living with disabilities. This