Men will talk only to male service providers . Male RH programmes with female staff, including for the practice of vasectomy have shown as good results as those with male staff. The essential is not the sex of the provider but the respect and confidentiality with which men are treated. Serving men is expensive . There are a number of examples of good quality care with limited resources, especially when existing services are rationalized.
All men have the same needs and concerns .
Specific strategies are needed to service the specific needs of different men, young, older, rural, urban, educated, non educated, homosexual. The priorities for programme components are to be determined according to local needs. Men have their own sexual and reproductive health concerns and needs which are not always met. The focus on male involvement only as a means to improve women's reproductive health may cause an oversight of men's own reproductive health needs. Due to their ascribed gender roles, men tend to have little knowledge about their own physiology and health including sexual and reproductive health.