Kanwal Asghar
Department of Rural Sociology, Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
Ashfaq Ahmad Maann
Department of Rural Sociology, Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
Muhammad Iqbal Zafar
Department of Rural Sociology, Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
Tanvir Ali
Directorate of Counting Education and Agriculture Extension, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
ABSTRACT
Denying of reproductive health rights encompasses the problems of HIV and STDs/STIs, unintended pregnancy and abortion and infertility. The present study was designed to identify vulnerability (towards HIV/AIDS) and violence against women due to lack of knowledge at reproductive health rights. It was found that those married women who were agreed that HIV/AIDS and STD/STIs are preventable had highly consistent attitude towards the RHR practice. Similarly, statistically highly significant positive relationship was observed from the correlation coefficient Somersd (p<0.0001) between the perception of married women about the RH-Security and their attitude towards the practices of RHR. It was suggested that in addition to the information that HIV/AIDS and STD/STIs are preventable diseases married women must have information and knowledge about the preventive measures. Only then they can insist for the adoption of any RH-Service to her partner or spouse.
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Kanwal Asghar, Ashfaq Ahmad Maann, Muhammad Iqbal Zafar and Tanvir Ali, 2010. Practicing of Women Reproductive Health Rights: A Road Map for HIV Prevention. Pakistan Journal of Nutrition, 9: 250-254.
DOI: 10.3923/pjn.2010.250.254
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=pjn.2010.250.254
DOI: 10.3923/pjn.2010.250.254
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=pjn.2010.250.254
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