Another unmet need is the hygienic birthing environment to prevent infection, which contributes 9.7% to the deaths in Africa. Africa needs emergency obstetrics care and adequate nutrition and to manage eclampsia, obstructed labour and anaemia.
The overflow of condoms and contraception are evidence of sexual and socio-cultural colonialism. Many Africans are aware that sexual and reproductive health and rights are a proverbial “cockroach in the ice cream” of aid in kind to Africa. Can there be a shift from a deficit model that thinks that Africa exists because problems exist to a model that conceptualizes the African woman as a person and a protagonist in the story of development and one that has the moral capacity to change her life through the choices she makes?
Thank you so much.