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Provision of Medical Facilities for Women

Affordable and relevant health services and to accurate, comprehensive health information are fundamental human rights. The right to health is one of the fundamental human rights. The concept of the right to health has been mentioned in Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Covenant on Economic, social and cultural rights and etc. Yet, gender-based discrimination, lack of access to education, poverty, and violence against women and girls can all prevent these rights from being provided for women and girls -- challenges that are often particularly acute when it comes to sexual and reproductive health rights and safe motherhood. The major issues regarding women health care that arise throughout the world are reproductive health care that is compromised by brutal practice of Female Genital Mutilation and by non-cooperation to stop STDs.  The patriarchal societies with wide gender gaps believe it is Taboo to discuss the sex-related diseases with the doctors and other pe