Right to Sexual and Reproductive Health Education 2016 2.4 SRH from A Rights based approach International standards concerning health have various insinuations for RH care which dictates roughly all aspects of delivering care, defining the services such as education, information and counseling, to whom and in what manner that they must be offered. Some principles that are in the rights based approach to RH include; • A person’s right to make their own decisions regarding reproduction without intrusion or coercion and the right to control their SRH lives. This principle corroborates the conditions for family planning services, attempts to prevent child and forced marriages, HIV/AIDS and other STDs, sexual violence and treatment for reproductive issues that prevent fertility. • It also includes the individual’s right to be respected for differences and non‐discrimination in access to RH services for all groups’ such as married and unmarried women, adolescents, natives and migrants, including the refugees. In doing so governments are required to ensure that people have equal access to health care and that the service meets the distinct needs of women and men. • Governments are also obliged to ensure that comprehensive RH services are made available and to remove barriers to health care. To fulfill peoples’ right to life and health, the States should attend to the rights of RH of most susceptible women, men and youth when allocating budgets and while implementing policies. This principle is fundamental in preventing HIV and maternal mortality.33 33 United Nations Population Fund, (2008). Reproductive rights and sexual and reproductive health framework. Retrieved from http://www.unfpa.org/publications/sexual‐and‐reproductive‐health‐framework 22 REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH EDUCATION FROM A RIGHTS PERSPECT