Access to contraceptives and the right to health in Angola

Experiences of a Woman and Pharmacist

Bibliographic Data

ID5334747
AuthorsElisa Dulce João Fundanga Calipi (0009-0009-8445-431X, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina), Frédéric Manzini (0000-0002-3047-4632, Escola de Saúde Pública de Florianópolis (ESP-SC), Brasil, corresponding author), Silvana Nair Leite (0000-0002-5258-9684, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)
Year2024
Volume48
Issue140
Publication date2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSaúde em Debate (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0103-1104 • E-ISSN: 2358-2898
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/2358-289820241408775i
OpenAlexW4394852642
LanguageEN
References cited17

This report consists of what Conceição Evaristo calls 'writing and living' - the writing of black women, which mixes with experience, their memories, and the memories of their people, aiming to disturb consciences and echo our stories. The author's 'writing, living and self-seeing' is recognized as the 'writing of the soul', from where each woman writes considering the world she lives in. It aims to briefly reflect on access to medicines, focusing on the access to contraceptive methods in Angola, based on the author's experience. It is a qualitative study, and data were collected through documentary research, field study, and interviews. Content analysis was adopted for data processing. Access to contraceptive methods in Angolan territory is incipient, a result of ineffective public policies and good governance, as well as ineffective external interference. These are reinforced by colonial heritage, which provides approaches in disagreement with local needs. Sexual and reproductive rights must be seen as a political and public health issue inherent to human dignity, beyond the eugenic perspective of birth control

Dignity · Eugenics · Human rights · Political science · Politics · Population · Reproductive health · Reproductive rights · Sociology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Gender Studies · Global Maternal and Child Health · Law · Male Reproductive Health Studies