Other Reproductive Health Issues Counselling & Service Provision

Reproductive health, ideally, means that every baby is wanted and planned for and that every pregnant woman has access to the resources she needs for her own and her baby's robustness. It means putting more effort into improving the survival, health, and development of infants. It also means helping to solve problems of infertility for men and women who want to have a baby and cannot. It means finding more acceptable, safer contraceptive methods and making existing methods more available, with vigorous dissemination of information about contraception and other health matters that affect reproduction. It means increasing support to eliminate or alleviate genetic diseases. Most important, it means developing the view that healthy reproduction is intrinsic to the vitality of the nation and, with it, the commitment to use all possible means, including education, research, ethical inquiry, and political action, to achieve that goal.