Women Health Centers

Women and the Reproductive Health

Health status of women

Women in Health Care

39 medical centres

Women from ethnic minorities and health care

1.2.2.3 Judiciary

All major government health facilities have separate facilities for women.

The concept of women's health in Benin went well beyond reproductive health it embraced women's health as a whole, including girls' health education, the struggle against HIV AIDS and the problems older women encountered with cancer.

The quality in healthcare services remains poor, and access to them was difficult for women, especially in the mountainous and rural areas.

While noting the efforts made by the State party to improve reproductive health care for women, the Committee remains concerned about the lack of access to adequate health care of women and girls, particularly in rural areas.

(f) The equal right of women and girls to access to health care

The Government has adopted serious measures to eliminate discrimination against women in health care and has adopted a series of legal and regulatory acts and governmental decisions protecting the health of women and giving women the same access to health care that men have

Article 12 health care and welfare Here the report looks specifically at the position of older women, including gay women, and disabled women in health care and welfare work.

12.2 Structure and organization of healthcare network for women

Special Health Services for Women

The lack of cultural sensitivity on the part of women's health care providers toward the rural recipient, remains an issue in rural communities, and continues to threaten the cost of effective women's health care, and contributes to a higher risk of poor health among women.

Women's advancement could only be achieved if women's health needs at basic levels were addressed.

Article 12 Women's equal access to health care services

Furthermore, women's access to reproductive health care was crucial to ensure gender equality and better lives for women, and a basic reproductive health programme had been implemented nationwide.

By the decision on determining temporary standards and norms of health care protection in mandatory health care insurance, the health care protection of women has been determined by establishing a standard one team of 1,0 doctors gynecology and acoucheury specialists, 0,5 senior health care technicians, and 1,5 intermediate health care technicians for 11.000 insured persons women.

This especially relates to the portion that provides health care protection for women and oral health care.

The health state of a woman is an important indicator of the health status of the population and the effectiveness of health care protection.

Women in management positions in the healthcare sector

After completion of training, these women will reach out with health information to women and girls through house to house visits.

The National Health Policy aims to increase women's access to the health system.

For example, the Committee recommended that Governments should involve women in the planning, implementation and monitoring of health policies and programmes and in the provision of health services to women.10

The problems of women's state of health are unequal access to health protection in rural and urban areas, low levels of education, lack of gynaecological health protection services counselling for adolescents, low levels of health promotion and absence of a multidisciplinary, integrative attitude to problems of the health of women.

The activity on the reproductive health of women is integrated in the Ministry of Health.

What health programmes were specifically directed towards elderly women?

The discussion on health care had focused on reproductive health but there were other important aspects of health of concern to women.

Women Health Project The project aims at improving the health, nutrition and social status of women and girls by developing Women Friendly hospitals in 20 districts of Pakistan.

Specific data on the amount of the health budget set aside or availed by women is not available.

The National Health Policy 2001 aims to promote women's health throughout their lifespan.

There are 12 women (26 ) in the National Health Insurance Council.

Numerous actions undertaken by the Brazilian Government during the period covered by this Report refer to Recommendation No. 15, that Brazil should adopt, among other, additional measures to guarantee the effective access of women, especially young women, women from vulnerable groups and rural women, to information and health services, particularly those related to sexual and reproductive health.

A woman's right to health services did not end with her reproductive capacities what was the practice in Benin regarding the provision of health services to older women?

With regard to the sexual and reproductive health needs of HIV positive women, UNFPA and WHO have developed clinical guidelines on sexual and reproductive health for women living with HIV.

States parties should allocate adequate budgetary, human and administrative resources to ensure that women's health receives a share of the overall health budget comparable with that for men's health, taking into account their different health needs.

However, for all other infrastructures, rural areas are at a disadvantage, with 28 per cent of women living less than five kilometres from a health establishment, 29 per cent living far from one and 24 per cent living very far from one.

Programmes against leprosy, tuberculosis, river blindness (onchocerciasis), diarrhoeal diseases, acute respiratory infections, malaria, Buruli ulcers.

Education and health are also important sectors of employment for women.

In addition to these services provided by all healthcare facilities, the Government has also established separate obstetric and gynae facilities, maternal and child health centers staffed by lady health workers etc.

Insecurity in the country has also prevented many women, especially those in rural areas, from travelling outside their homes to seek health care.

It's mostly the women's, health and family magazines that have a female editor rather than national dailies or other newspapers.