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Question
What are the strategies to be implemented in India to attain total reproductive health?
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Solution
- Creating awareness and providing medical assistance to build a healthy society.
- Introducing sex education in schools to provide information about adolescence and adolescence related changes.
- Educating couples and those in the marriageable age groups about the available birth control methods and family planning norms.
- Creating awareness about care for pregnant women, postnatal care of mother and child, and the importance of breastfeeding.
- Encouraging and supporting governmental and non-governmental agencies to identify new methods and/or to improve upon the existing methods of birth control.
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| Column A | Column B | ||
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| (A) | MTP | (i) | Analysing fetal cells from amniotic fluid of the foetus |
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