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Sexual and reproductive health in prison: a discussion on the challenges of women deprived of their liberty
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Women
Sexual and reproductive health
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Sexual and reproductive health in prison: a discussion on the challenges of women deprived of their liberty. (2021). Electronic Journal Collection Health, 13(7), e7891. https://doi.org/10.25248/reas.e7891.2021

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Abstract

Objective: To analyze the sexual and reproductive health challenges faced by women deprived of their liberty. Bibliographic review: The 1988 Brazilian Constitution guarantees health as a right of all and duty of the State, however, in women's prisons there is no guaranteed access to health services, especially sexual and reproductive health, since inmates are subject to scarcity of hygiene products and poor sanitary conditions. Thus, within female prisons, for example, there is greater vulnerability of inmates to contract sexually transmitted infections, since there is overcrowding and the environment is deleterious. In addition, when pregnant women, prenatal, childbirth, and postpartum care is not offered with quality. Final considerations: Women deprived of their liberty do not have quality sexual and reproductive health within the penitentiaries, facing difficulties, among them there is: the lack of conditions of good hygiene, pregnancy, and childbirth not properly assisted. Thus, in women's prisons there is the non-fulfillment of the law that guarantees health as a right of all.

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