REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

Reproductive health is not only healthy physically, mentally and socially but also the safe sexual connect, self pregnant, safe delivery and free from rap. It is the process of any persons regarding achieving mental physical and social full health and well being.

Reproductive health includes safe development into adults, the avoidance of sexual and reproductive illnesses, the ability to choose when to have children to conceive safely and to avoid unwanted pregnancy. It also involves good health care to avoid the complications of child birth, abortion, use of contraceptive methods and the long term effects of sexually transmitted and reproductive tract infections.

WHO defined reproductive health as ‘A state of complete physical, mental and social well being not merely the absence of disease or infirmity in all matters relating to the reproductive system, to its functions and process’.
In fact, reproductive health implies that people are able to have a satisfying and safe sex life and that they have the civility to reproduce and the freedom to decide if, when and how often to do so. It concerns the disease of male and female related to family planning, infertility and STD/AIDS abortion, child birth, maternal complication, reproductive tract infection, girl education etc.

Characteristics of a Women Who was Good Reproductive Health

(a) Ability to birth healthy child
(b) Free from rape.
(c) Free from reproductive disease.
(d) Safe sexual contact
(e) Free from STDs.
(f) Without reproductive infections
(g) Menstruation at appropriate time
(h) Social well being
(i) Healthy and living without discrimination between son and daughter
(j) Always happy and smart
(k) Good moral character
(l) Able to maintain good adjustment with family
(m) She should have knowledge about reproductive process, results and necessary consciousness
(n) Having number of children she can care for (lor2) with appropriate spacing
(o) Before pregnancy, during pregnancy and at the time of delivery check up and medical support
(p) Appropriate age of marriage
(q) She should get honour in her family
(r) Having opportunity in social and economic activities etc .

Characteristics of Man Who has Good Reproductive Health

· Mentally, Physically and socially healthy
· Free from STDs, reproductive disease and other disease.
· Healthy sexual relationship with wife
· Keeping only safe sexual contact
· Married man has sexual contact only with his wife
· He should have full knowledge about reproductive health, reproductive process, family planning
· Not having bad habits
· Not making any violence beating wife, or drinking alcohol
· Married after physically and mentally prepared
· Understanding of women’s problems
· Not depriving women of their rights and duties
· Helpful during pregnancy, delivery and other problem of wife
· Always happy and smart etc .


The national Reproductive Health Strategy of Nepal (adopted in1997) includes the following elements to make integrated reproductive health services available in the kingdom. These includes
Family planning
Safe motherhood
Child birth
Prevention and management of infertility
Adolescent reproductive health
Problems of elderly women particularly cancer treatment at the tertiary level/ private sector
RTI/STD /HIV/AIDS
Prevention and management of complication of abortion

Scope of Reproductive Health (components of Reproductive Health)

The national Reproductive Health Strategy of Nepal (adopted in1997) includes the following elements to make integrated reproductive health services available in the country. These includes

• Family planning
• Safe motherhood
• Child birth
• Prevention and management of infertility
• Adolescent reproductive health
• Problems of elderly women particularly cancer treatment at the tertiary
• level/ private sector
• RTI/STD and HIV/AIDS
• Prevention and management of complication of abortion
  

Importance of Reproductive Health

aThe need and importance of reproductive health education in the context of Nepal is described as followings.

• Parents do not seem to eager to discuss sex with their children when they talk is about it, to little too late.
• Adolescents said that they could be open about sex with parents
• Parents have not information to give to the children
• Peers and friends may also have little accurate knowledge about basic fact of reproduction
• Need to correct the main information adolescent believe in
• Reproductive health education can give the correct and factual information to prevent unsafe sexual behaviour, HIV/AIDS and STL, sexual abuse, adolescences pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy and child birth, unsafe abortion, getting larger family size and so on.
• Reproductive health education assists the youth in learning how to cope with physical, emotional and social changes
• Reproductive health education helps in the developing knowledge, values and skills necessary for adult life, marriage, parenthood and participation in the life of the community.

HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM

Reproduction is a process in which organism can produce new individual of their own kinds for the continuation of life.

Reproductive system refers to the structure and functions of reproductive organs.
Human beings are unisexual i.e. that is male and female reproductive system are found in separate individual. Therefore, reproductive system are described separately.
1. Male reproductive System
2. Female reproductive System

Male Reproductive System

The male reproductive system refers to the structure and function of male reproductive organs.

The male reproductive organs can be classifed into two types.
(i) External Reproductive Organs: It includes scrotum, Penis, Glens Penis, Foreskin, public hair etc.
(ii) Internal Reproductive System: It includes Testes, Epididymis, Vas deference, Seminal, Vesicles, Ejaculatory duct, Prostate gland, Urethra etc.