Our lives are in our hands. We’ve got to be responsible for our sexual and reproductive health. What is sexual and reproductive health?

The exercise of control over one’s sexual and reproductive health linked to human rights and includes the right to:

• Reproductive health as a component of overall health, throughout the life cycle, for both men and women;
• Reproductive decision-making, including voluntary choice in marriage, family formation and determination of the number, timing and spacing of one’s children and the right to have access to the information and means needed to exercise voluntary choice;
• Equality and equity for men and women, to enable individuals to make free and informed choices in all spheres of life, free from discrimination based on gender; and
• Sexual and reproductive security, including freedom from sexual violence and coercion, and the right to privacy.