I personally would lay down my life for each and every one of my children- Three sons and two daughters. We must not allow women's health needs to be torpedoed by other peoples agendas. The strengthening of the health care systems by making them effective, affordable, and accessible to all women and the African population as a whole. I especially abhor the experimentation and dumping of untested and harmful drugs in Africa and other developing countries f. Recognise fully the irreplaceable role of parents and the family in educating and in forming children in matters of sexuality, with recognition of and with full respect for African culture and religious beliefs. While recognising that there are some undesirable aspects of our indigenous cultures, we must not abandon it wholesale in preference for imported Western values as contained in the document, which are unclear about important issues like family and gender.
Family is the corner stone of our societies and culture, and the source of our strength.
Ensure the urgent provision and strengthening of quality basic and secondary education, middle level professional and vocational facilities to make education accessible and affordable to all, as education is a basic human right. Unless we recognise that each individual is irrepeatable and valuable by virtue of simply being conceived human, we cannot begin to talk about human rights. This includes the right to be born, as all of us have enjoyed. True justice should be for each human being, visible and invisible, young and old, disabled and able, to enjoy fully their right to life. The accidental attributes that we acquire such as colour, sex intelligence, economic circumstances, physical or mental disability should not be used as an excuse to deprive a person of life.