African women, girls, and gender-expansive persons deserve a rights-based sexual and reproductive health agenda that recognizes and respects bodily autonomy and choice as the cornerstone of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Despite the progress being made globally in advancing health for all agenda, SRHR remains a contested intervention area. In many African countries, not all women and girls can exercise their sexual and reproductive health and rights free from coercion, violence, and discrimination. Negative societal attitudes and gender norms reinforced by the religious, community, and political leaders; policies and laws that ignore the needs and issues of certain groups of women, girls, and gender-expansive persons, criminalization of sexual and reproductive health such as access to safe abortion, and lack of funding for implementation of policies and laws, and contestations over Sexual Orientation Gender Identity and Expression remain barriers to the health and wellbeing of African women and girls in their diversities.

By boldly challenging negative social, religious, and gender norms and structures that undermine SRHR, strengthening the capacity of African feminists to demand SRHR, and supporting a diverse and inclusive African feminist movement. We see an intersectional approach to this work as the only way to challenge the systems of power and oppression premised on gender, sexual orientation, class, etc, that reinforce each other to deny access to SRHR.