REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

1. RALLI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

3. Reproductive Health
 It means healthy reproductive organs with normal functions.
 However, it has a broader perspective and includes the emotional
and social aspects of reproduction also.
According to WHO , “ It
means a total well
being in all aspects of
reproduction :
physical ,emotional,
behavioral & social.”

4. Reproductive Health : Problems & Strategies
 India one of the first countries to launch action schemes and
programs regarding family planning.
 It was initiated at a national level in the year 1951 and called
‘Family Planning’.
 Improved programs covering wider reproduction-related
areas are currently in operation under name ‘Reproductive
and Child Health
 Various steps to create awareness among the citizens about
reproduction-related aspects and it includes:
 Awareness about family planning.
 Introduction of Sex education in schools.
 Using printed materials Audio and Video on PowerPoint
Slides on Reproductive Health.
 Complete information about the reproductive organs,
adolescence, safe and hygienic sexual practices, sexually
transmitted diseases, birth control methods, care of
mother and newborn child, etc.
Statutory ban on amniocentesis for sex-determination to legally check
increasing female foeticides, massive child immunization, etc.

5. Population Explosion & Birth Control

6. Population Explosion & Birth Control
Some steps to overcome population explosion:

7. Contraception
Natural /
Traditional
Barrier
Method
IUD’s Oral
Injection /
Implants
Surgical
• Periodic
abstinence
• Withdrawal
or coitus
interruptus
• Lactational
amenorrhea
• Condoms
• Diaphragm,
cervical
caps and
vaults
• Intra Uterine
Devices
• non-
medicated
IUDs (e.g.,
Lippes loop),
• copper
releasing
IUDs (CuT,
Cu7,
Multiload
375)
• hormone
releasing
IUDs
(Progestase
rt, LNG-20)
• Used by
Female
only
known
as Pills
• Progester
one alone
or in
combinati
on with
estrogen
used as
injection
or
implants
under the
skin of
female
• Also called
sterilisation
• terminal
method to
prevent
pregnancies
• blocks
gamete
transport
and thereby
prevent
conception

8. Physical contraceptive or Barrier Methods

9. Intra Uterine Devices (IUDs)
c) Hormone Releasing IUDs – Progestasert
and LNG 20

10. Oral contraceptives

11. Injections or implants

12. Surgical Methods

13. Medical Termination Of Pregnancy (MTP)
• Intentional or voluntary termination of pregnancy
before full term is called medical termination of
pregnancy (MTP) or induced abortion.
• Government of India legalized MTP in 1971 with some
strict conditions to avoid its misuse.
• Such restrictions are all the more important to check
indiscriminate and illegal female foeticides.
• MTPs are considered relatively safe during the first
trimester, i.e., upto 12 weeks of pregnancy.

14. Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)

15. Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)

16. Infertility

17. Methods of Infertility Control
1) IVF-ET: In Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer.
 GIFT : Gamete Intra Fallopian Transfer
 ZIFT : Zygote Intra Fallopian Transfer
2) IUI: Intra- Uterine Insemination
3) ICSI : Intra Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection
4) AI : Artificial Insemination