Addressing Reproductive Health Issues With Women-Based Approach

Surveys have shown how women's lack of knowledge on sex, contraception, pregnancy and abortion have affected their reproductive health orientation

- Ajoy Khandheria

With this year’s World Population Day’s theme being reproductive health and gender equality essential for achieving sustainable development, the focus has once again shifted towards the need for women’s reproductive health. Survey shave shown how women's lack of knowledge on sex, contraception, pregnancy and abortion affect their reproductive health orientation.

A reproductive health orientation means that people have the ability to reproduce as well as to regulate their fertility; women are able to undergo pregnancy and childbirth safely and that the outcome of pregnancy is successful in terms of both maternal and child health and well-being. Reproductive health is affected by a variety of socio-cultural and biological factors and the quality of the delivery system. A woman-based approach to reproductive health is one which responds to the needs of adult women and adolescent girls.

The current scenario