Women with disabilities struggle to exercise reproductive health rights

Absence of accessible infrastructure and lack of awareness among health workers are some of the hurdles.

Twenty-three-year-old Roshni Lama faced a lot of trouble during her periods when she was at school. Lama uses a wheelchair due to her spinal cord injury. The school and public bathrooms weren’t disability-friendly, and she wasn’t much aware of reproductive hygiene. Today, things have changed for the better. Having attended sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) training classes, she is a lot more aware of reproductive hygiene now.