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Integrating equity principles into community reproductive counseling provides an equitable framework to address RHD.
Applying equity frameworks and a community-based model is proposed to address the intersection of cardiac and reproductive health challenges in women with rheumatic heart disease.
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May inform equity-focused community models for RHD reproductive care; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.
Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD), a preventable disease of poverty, disproportionately affects women of reproductive age, highlighting a crisis at the intersection of cardiac and reproductive health. Despite effective interventions, RHD remains neglected in policy priorities. This paper uses the case of reproductive health dilemmas to demonstrate the need for the application of equity frameworks. We analyse how consequentialist, communitarian, and feminist principles can guide policymakers toward more effective and just interventions. The paper proposes a community-based model, justified through this ethical lens, and calls for policies prioritising equity to finally address RHD's preventable burden.
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Shimanda et al. (2026) conducted a review in Rheumatic Heart Disease. Community-based reproductive health counselling programme was evaluated. Integrating consequentialist, communitarian, and feminist principles into a community-based reproductive health counseling program provides an equitable framework to address rheumatic heart disease.
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