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Question
Suggest some important steps that you would recommend to be taken to improve the reproductive health standards in India.
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Solution
Following measures are needed to be taken to improve the reproductive health standards in India
- Providing infrastructural facilities and professional expertise to attain reproductive health.
- Educating people about birth control method, care of pregnant mothers, importance of breast feeding. safe and hygienic sexual practices and safeguard against STDs.
- Introducing of sex education in schools to give proper information to the young minds about sex-related aspect.
- Help of audio-visual and print media to create awareness among people about reproduction-related aspects.
- Awareness of problems due to populaton explosin, soicial evils like sex-abuse and sex-related crimes.
- Statutory ban on amniocentesis to legally check female foeticides.
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