Access to contraceptives and the right to health in Angola: experiences of women and pharmacist

Abstract

This report presents a proposal of what the writer Conceição Evaristo calls “living 'write” - the writing of the black woman, which is mixed with the experience, a report of memories and memories of her people, aiming to disturb consciences and echo our stories. The author's “writing, living and seeing oneself” is also recognized as “writing of the soul”, this place where each woman writes considering the world she lives in, a way that is integrated into the experience of writing. It is proposed to make a brief reflection on access to medicines, taking access to contraceptive medicines and devices in Angola as the author's experience on specific occasions and based on the understanding that sexual and reproductive rights play a fundamental role in public health, as the guarantee of these directly affects the way of life and the social and economic characteristics of the community. Thus, considering the right to health and comprehensive care as fundamental in the provision of contraceptive methods, allows rationalizing resources and investing in local potential.