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FAQ
| What do you mean by family planning and reproductive health? |
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Reproductive health encompasses any issue that relates to the health or disease of the reproductive system. Reproductive health needs vary over the course of an individual’s life. The activities additional to family planning encompassed by reproductive health include: linking family planning with maternity services (pre-conception care, pregnancy, and delivery), HIV/AIDS and STD information and services, and supporting post-abortion care. It also includes reproductive health problems, such as reproductive cancers. |
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| What is unintended pregnancy? |
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An unintended pregnancy is one that is unwanted or mistimed at the time of conception. It does not mean an unwanted birth or an unloved child. It does mean that there is less opportunity for the parents to prepare physically and financially, take advantage of pre-pregnancy risk identification and management, and initiate needed changes in diet, exercise, smoking and drinking that help ensure a healthy pregnancy. |
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| Why is unintended pregnancy a problem? |
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For some, unintended pregnancies result in healthy children in happy families. For others there are negative health effects starting from abortion, late or inadequate prenatal care, low birth weight, tobacco smoke, and maternal depression. Sometimes unintended pregnancies are also associated with economic hardship and marital dissolution. Most of all unintended pregnancies end with an induced abortion. |
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| How can we reduce the incidence of unintended pregnancy? |
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A woman’s ability to avoid an unintended pregnancy is related to her level of risk for pregnancy, her choice of methods, the strength of her motivation to avoid pregnancy and her pattern of contraceptive use. These factors, in turn, are often associated with a woman’s demographic and socioeconomic background, beliefs, characteristics of her sexual partnerships, and her experiences with and attitudes toward pregnancy and contraception.
While more than half of unintended pregnancies occur among women who were not using any method (traditional or modern) of contraception in the month they conceived; sometimes pregnancy occur among women who were using a contraceptive method the month they conceived. Issues related to inconsistent or incorrect use of method were the primary reason they conceived. Research indicates that the most effective birth control method is the method the client is the most comfortable with.
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