L5.1.4: Reproductive Healthcare

• Reproductive Health Care – SERVICES

  ○ Services, programs, activities that are geared towards promoting reproductive health.

  ○ Access to a full range of methods, facilities, services, and supplies that contribute to reproductive health and well-being by addressing its health-related problems.

  ○ Composed of 12 essential elements.
• Reproductive Health Care Program

  ○ The systematic and integrated provision of reproductive health care to all citizens prioritizing women, the poor, marginalized and those invulnerable or crisis situations — the least
• 12 Elements of Reproductive Healthcare

  1.. Family planning information and services

  2. Maternal, infant, and child health and nutrition including breastfeeding

  3. Proscription of abortion and management of abortion complications

  4. Adolescent and youth reproductive health guidance and counseling at the point of care

  5. Prevention, treatment and management of reproductive tract infections (RTIs), HIVs, AIDs, and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs)

  6. Elimination of violence against women and children and other forms of sexual and gender-based violence
• 12 Elements of Reproductive Healthcare

  7. Age and developmentally-appropriate education and counseling on sexuality and reproductive health

  8. Treatment of breast and reproductive tract cancers and other gynecological conditions and disorders

  9. Male responsibility and involvement and men’s reproductive health

  10. Prevention, treatment and management of infertility and sexual dysfunction

  11. Age and development-appropriate RH education for adolescents in formal and non-formal educational settings

  12. Mental health aspect of reproductive health care