This document discusses reproductive health and related topics. Reproductive health is defined as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being in relation to reproductive processes, not just the absence of disease. The objectives of reproductive health are to ensure access to comprehensive information and services for family planning and responsible voluntary decisions about childbearing. Reproductive health care includes family planning, counseling, infertility treatment, abortion services, and prevention/treatment of infections and other reproductive health conditions. Traditional harmful practices that violate women's sexual and reproductive rights are also reviewed, such as female genital mutilation, early and forced marriage, female disinheritance, gender inequality and women trafficking.
2. WHAT IS REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH?
Defined in relation to
the positive definition of
health in WHO
constitution as: a state of
complete physical,
mental, and social well
being, and not merely
the absence of disease or
disorder of the
reproductive process.
3. To ensure that comprehensive and factual
information and a full range of reproductive
health care services are accessible, affordable,
acceptable and convenient to all users.
To enable and support responsible voluntary
decisions about child-bearing and methods of
family planning.
To meet changing reproductive health needs over
the life cycle and to do in ways sensitive to the
diversity
OBJECTIVES OF REPRODUCTIVE
HEALTH
4. • Is defined as the
constellation of
methods, techniques,
and services that
contribute to the
reproductive health
and well-being by
preventing and
solving reproductive
health problems.
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE
5. Family planning
Counseling
Information
Education
Communication & services
Education & services for parental care
Prevention & appropriate treatment of infertility
Abortion
Treatment of reproductive tract infections
STD & other reproductive health conditions
Human sexuality
Responsible parenthood
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE
SHOULD BE INCLUDE
6. FAMILY PLANNING
• Family planning is
the planning of when to
have children and the use
of birth control and other
techniques to implement
such plans. Other
techniques commonly used
include sexuality education
prevention and management
of sexually transmitted
infections, pre-conception
counseling and
management,
and infertility management.
7. INFERTILITY
• The couple unable to produce
children in spite of unprotected
sex is due to Infertility.
Problems of infertility may be
in male or female.
• The reason of infertility may
be:- physical, congenial,
diseases, drugs, immunological
or even psychological.
• Female are blamed often in
some of the countries.
• Specialized Health care units
like Infertility clinics- diagnose,
corrective treatments to have
child.
8. ABORTION
• The term abortion means
to terminate a
pregnancy, this is done
trough the removal of the
fetes or embryo from the
females uterus either
chemically, with
pharmaceutical drugs or
surgically.
• In developing countries
abortions are not carried
out safely resulting in
over 20 million deaths
each year.
9. WOMEN’S SEXUALAND REPRODUCTIVE
RIGHTS
The Concept of
Women’s Sexual and
Reproductive Right
(WSRR) emerged and
became recognized as
an integral aspect of
universal human right.
12. EARLY MARRIAGE:
• Simply means when a
child(below 14yrs) or young
person(up to 17yrs)
willingly or unwillingly goes
into marriage.
• Early marriage violates the
following rights of the girl
child
– to equality and all forms
discrimination
– to information and education
– choose whether or when to
marry and plan a family
– healthcare and protection
– freedom from ill treatment
and torture.
13. FEMALE DISINHERITANCE
• This refers to the cultural
practice that forbid
female from inheriting
properties from their
immediate families.
• The practice violate
women’s rights
– to equality and freedom
from discrimination,
– ill treatment and torture.
14. - GENDER INEQUALITY
VIOLATES THE WOMEN’S
RIGHTS TO
EQUALITY AND FREEDOM
FROM DISCRIMINATION;
HEALTHCARE AND
PROTECTION
INFORMATION AND
EDUCATION
FREEDOM FROM ILL
TREATMENT AND TORTURE.
GENDER INEQUITY
15. WOMEN TRAFFICKING
All acts involved in the
recruitment or transportation
of women within or across
national borders, for work or
services, by means of
violence or threat of violence,
debt bondage, deception or
other coercion.
- Trafficking violates women’s
right to
• liberty and security;
• equality and freedom from
discrimination;
• freedom from torture and ill
treatment.