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Article: Putting sexual and reproductive choice on the SADC agenda.(Southern African Development Community)(Southern African Reproductive Rights Alliance )
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- Sister Namibia
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- November 1, 2003
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Namibia and other countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) need to do a lot more to make sexual and reproductive choice a reality--hence the establishment in October 2003 of the Southern African Reproductive Rights Alliance (SARRA).
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SARRA is the result of a SADC Advocacy Workshop on Sexual and Reproductive Choice organised by South Africa's Reproductive Rights Alliance, a national alliance of women's rights and health organisations.
A regional study done by Reproductive Rights Alliance in 2002 found that nearly all SADC member states provided limited access to services. The right to termination of ...