Abstract:
This study focuses on women reproductive health
needs in Minna, Niger state with implications for counselling.
This paper conceptualizes women reproductive health needs and
counselling. It discusses Reproductive health needs, such as
family planning, sexually transmitted diseases, and infertility. It
also look into challenges of women reproductive health needs,
like resources, burden of disease, impact on reproductive system
and human right dimension. The paper listed some remedies to
women reproductive health needs such as: women should be
given access to appropriate safe, effective, affordable, accepted
methods of family planning and satisfying safe sexual life as well
as eliminating violence against women. Counselling implications
include: provision of counselling services at public hospitals in
Niger state. Such services should address issues such as
negotiation with husbands in terms of improving health related
behaviours of women reproductive health needs
