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.

1. Avoid sex with unknown partner/multiple partner
2. Use condoms.
3. In case of doubt, consult a doctor for diagnosis and get complete treatment.

1. Amniocentesis is the pre-natal diagnostic technique in which a sample of amniotic fluid from the womb of a pregnant woman is taken during early stages of embryonic development and the cells are cultured and analysed synthetically.
2. Any chromosomal disorder or a metabolic error can be detected and if necessary MTP can be advised.
3. But this technique is misused for knowing the sex of the foetus followed by female foeticide.
4. Female foeticide refers to aborting the female in the mother's womb.
5. In order to prevent female foeticide and infanticide, Government of India has taken various steps like PCPNDT Act .(preconception and prenatal diagnostic technique act-1994) enacted to ban the identification of sex and to prevent the use of prenatal diagnostic techniques for selective abortion.

1. Directly gametes cannot be transferred into the uterus, because the uterine environment is not suited for the survival of the gametes.
2. If the gametes directly transferred into the uterus, gametes will undergo degeneration (or) could be phagocytosed and viable zygotes will not be formed.
3. In this method, the own collected from a donor female is transferred to the fallopian tube of another woman.
4. The ovum has to be fertilized by the sperm of the woman's husband; the fallopian tube is the site for fertilization in a human female.
5. The gamete (ovum) if introduced into the uterus cannot move to the fallopian tube, the site of fertilization.