1. Reproductive health refers not only to healthy reproductive functions, but to the total well being of physical mental emotional, behavioural and social aspects of reproduction.
2. People having physically and functionally normal reproductive organs and exhibit normal behavioural and emotional interactions among themselves in all reproduction-related aspects are considered reproductively healthy.
3. 214 million women of reproductive age in developing countries who wants to avoid pregnancy are not using a modern contraceptive method.
4. Some family planning methods, such as condoms help prevent the transmission of HIV and other sexual transmitted infections.
5. Family planning contraception reduces the need for abortion, especially unsafe abortion.
6. Family planning reinforces people's rights to determine the number and spacing of their children.
7. By preventing unintended pregnancy, family planning/contraception prevents deaths of mothers and children.
8. Family planning is the key to slowing unsustainable population growth and the resulting negative impacts on the economy, environment and National and Regional development efforts.

Sexually transmitted diseases (STD) or veneral diseases(VD) or Reproductive tract infections (RTI) are called as Sexually transmitted infections (STI).
Transmissions:
1. Normally STI are transmitted from person to person during intimate sexual contact with an infected partner.
2. Infections like Hepatitis-B and HIV are transmitted sexually as well as by sharing of infusion needles, surgical instruments, etc with infected people, blood transfusion (or) from infected mother to baby.
3. People in the age of 15 to 24years are prone to these infections.
4. The bacterial STI are gonorrhoea syphilis, chancroid, chlamydiasis and lymphogranuloma venereum.
5. The viral STI are genital herpes, genital warts Hepatitis-B and AIDS.
6. Trichomoniasis is a protozoan STI, and candidiasis is a fungal STI.

The major sexually transmitted diseases are
(i) Gonorrhoea
1. Causative agent: Neisseria gonorrhoeae
2. Symptoms: Affects the urethra, rectum and throat and in females the cervix also get affected
3. Pain and pus discharge in the genital tract and burning sensation during urination.
4. Incubation period: 2 to 5 days
(ii) Syphilis
Causative agent : Treponema pallidum
Symptoms:
1. Primary stage: Formation of painless ulcer on the external genitalia.
2. Secondary stage : Skin lesions, rashes, swollen joints and fever and hair loss.
3. Tertiary stage : Appearance of chronic ulcers on nose. Lower legs and palate, loss of movement mental disorder visual impairment, heart problems, gummas (soft non-cancerous growths) etc.
(iii) Hepatitis B
1. Causative agent: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) with DNA.
2. Symptoms: Fatigue, jaundice, fever, rash and stomach pain.
3. Liver cirrhosis and liver failure occur in the later stage.
4. Incubation period: 30-80 days
(iv) AIDS:
1. Causative agent: Human immuno deficiency Virus (HIV) .
2. Symptoms: Enlarged lymph nodes, prolonged fever, prolonged diarrhoea, weight reduction, night sweating.
3. Incubation periods: 2 to 6 weeks even more than 10 years