Reproductive health involves ensuring individuals can reproduce and make choices about their reproductive health. Threats include unplanned pregnancy and STDs. Protection and treatment are crucial for preserving public reproductive health, including access to resources and family planning.
Reproductive health generally has to do with those medical conditions related to the reproductive tract and generally includes ensuring that individuals are able to reproduce and freely make reproductive choices for themselves. A person in good reproductive health is able to have children, as well as to choose when to have children and how many children to have. Threats can include unplanned pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and other reproductive problems such as infertility. For women, reproductive health often provides protection against unplanned pregnancies, as well as antenatal and postnatal care for pregnant women. Ensuring that expectant mothers enjoy the safest possible birth is another aspect of reproductive health.
STDs can be one of the biggest threats to both male and female reproductive health. Hundreds of millions of people are diagnosed with sexually transmitted infections each year that can be treated, such as gonorrhea or chlamydia. Many others can be diagnosed with STDs that cannot be treated, including genital herpes and HIV/AIDS. Regular and appropriate use of female or male latex condoms is thought to significantly reduce the chances that the disease could be spread during sexual intercourse. Other methods of protection against STDs include total abstention from sexual activity or sex exclusively within a mutually monogamous relationship with an STD-free partner.
Many STDs can have serious consequences for your reproductive and general health. Complications of STDs can include infertility, acute painful symptoms, and death. Some STDs can be spread to newborns in the womb, or during birth, from an infected mother. Prevention and treatment of these diseases are therefore considered crucial to preserve public reproductive health.
Experts believe that to maintain reproductive health, both men and women should have access to resources for protection against STDs and treatment for other medical conditions affecting the reproductive organs. Experts advocate extending reproductive choice to both men and women so that family planning can occur without the threat of unwanted pregnancies. Pregnant women generally need prenatal care and postnatal follow-up. Delivery should be as safe as possible, to minimize the risk of illness or death for both mothers and newborns.
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