Fertility and sexual health

Diet for Menopausal Women and Those with Menstrual Problems

Although it is helpful in counteracting some of the effects of menopause, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) cannot stop ageing. A healthy diet and exercise are the keys to enjoying good health at any age. After Menopause, And for Women Who Have Menstrual Problems Eat Plenty of: Foods high in calcium and vitamin D, such as low -fat dairy products, dark-green, leafy vegetables, and legumes. Iron-rich foods. such as fish and shell-fish, legumes and lamb. Fibre-rich carbohydrates.

Assisted Reproductive Technologies or Foetal Maternal Medicine

Most couples have an 85 per cent chance of successful conception within a year of attempting to achieve a pregnancy. For the 15 per cent who are not so lucky, a series of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) can be employed to help them achieve their goal. In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF), more commonly referred to as the 'test-tube baby', is the latest and most commonly used technique in reproductive technology to help women who are having problems conceiving.

Colposcopy

What is a Colposcopy? What are The Benefits of Colposcopy? Colposcopy is a procedure that uses a special microscope (called a colposcope) to look into the vagina and to look very closely at the cervix (the opening to the uterus, or womb). The colposcope magnifies, or enlarges, the image of the outer portion of the cervix. It is somewhat like looking through a pair of binoculars. This allows the health care provider to see the outer portion of the cervix better. Sometimes a smal sample of tissue (called a biopsy) is taken for further study.

Menstruation and Menopause

Menstruation is the normal periodic loss of blood and uterine lining, by way of the vagina, in a woman who is not pregnant. The flow usually lasts 4 to 5 days and recurs about every 28 days. Menstruation starts with puberty and continues for about 30 years in most women. The first menstrual period is called the menarche and the ending of menstruation is called the menopause.

Symtopms of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)

With Acute Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID): severe pain and tenderness in the lower abdomen with vaginal discharge, often accompanied by fever. With Chronic PID: mild, recurrent pain in the lower abdomen, sometimes accompanied by backache or irregular menstrual periods. pain during intercourse. infertility. irregular menstrual periods. heavy, unpleasant-smelling vaginal discharge Call Your Doctor If :

Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV / AIDS: A Potential Threat to Child Survival

It is amazing, and humbling, to realize that in the late 1970s the human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) was spreading silently- unrecognized and unnoticed around the world. In the summer of S981, when AIDS was first recognized by the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in the United States among five homosexual men in Los Angeles. Presently, HIV/ATDS is the greatest health crisis ever faced by the mankind. Already this pandemic has killed about 30 million people. More than 40 million are living with virus. An additional 14,000 are added everyday to this pool.

Reproductive Tract Infections

More than a million women and children died from the complications of reproductive tract infection (RTI) every year during the 1990s. RTI causes a heavy emotional burden, especially when they damage fertility; while about 5 per cent of women world- wide are unable to bear children due to some inherited or hormonal disorder. Much larger numbers are rendered infertile by damage to their reproductive tract. Young women may suffer from infections of the reproductive tract that can have a major impact on their ability to bear children.

Human Sex and Desire Under Behavioral Perception

What is Human Life?

Women's Health and Misconceptions

Misconceptions have been causing great harm to women's health, specially, reproductive health, among various societies in the developing centuries for centuries. These misconceptions had been harming the cause of women's health in the developed world even few decades ago. While these misconceptions are largely done away within the developed world, the underdeveloped and developing world is still Suffering widely due to all those misconceptions.

Family Planning Areas for Action

Reducing up dropout rates in pills and Injectables through quality service provision, including counseling and management of side effects. Addressing up the unmet need of 15 per cent for family planning. Increasing up choice of methods through more availability of long term/ permanent methods. Motivating up men to take their responsibility in Family Planning through Behavior Change Communication. Introducing up Female Condoms as a method of choice and as an empowerment tool for women.

As Menopause Aproaches, Needs Change

Between peak childbearing years and menopause, a woman's fertility gradually declines, reducing her risk of an unplanned pregnancy. Yet, a risk still exists.

Good Counselling Vital for Clients with STDs

Good counseling for people infected with a sexually transmitted disease (STD) helps them comply with treatment, understand their contraceptive choices and encourages them to notify partners. Infected individuals who continue to be sexually active, particularly those who are HIV-positive, need to understand ways to prevent transmission to others and may need effective contraception to prevent unintended pregnancy.

Male Responsibility for Reproductive Health

An article of ICPD Programme of Action says: "It is essential to improve communication between men and women on issues of sexuality and reproductive health, and the understanding of their joint responsibilities, so that men and women are equal partners in public and private life." In 1994, the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) was held in Cairo. This was the third global gathering of nations on population issues since 1974.

Safe Motherhood and Child Development: Men's Role

Pregnancy-related complications cause one quarter to one half of deaths among women of reproductive age in developing counties. In some countries pregnancy-related complications are the leading cause of death for reproductive age group of women. Many thousands of women in developing countries suffer serious illness and disabilities, including chronic pelvic pain; pelvic inflammatory disease, incontinence, and infertility, caused by pregnancy or its complications.

Family Planning

Family Planning is the conscious effort of couples to regulate the number and spacing of births. Through Family Planning couples can avoid having children too early, to frequently or too many. Family Planning programme evolved during the last five decades and achieved success which is also internationally recognized.

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are a group of communicable diseases that are transferred predominantly by sexual contact and are thus to a large extent "behavioral diseases". Over the past decade, they have continued to be the most commonly notifiable infectious conditions nationally and worldwide. With the escalating epidemic of HIV infection, there has been new attention focused on the spread of STDs in general, raising concerns about both the clinical and social implications of these infections.

Symptoms of Syphilis

A puslike urethral discharge that may he yellowish, cloudy, green, white, or bloodstained. Frequent need to urinate. Burning sensation while urinating. Severe pelvic and lower abdominal pain. Constant Urge to Move Bowels (Anal Gonorrhea): nausea; vomiting, fever, chills. pain during intercourse. reddened, irritated tip of penis. severe sore throat; pain on swallowing (pharyngeal gonorrhea).

Symptoms and Diagnosis of Some STDs and Treatment

Nongonococcal Urethritis and Chlamydial Cervicitis Nongonococcal urethritis and chlamydial cervicitis are sexually transmitted diseases usually caused by Chlamydia trachomatis or (in men) Ureaplasma urealyticum but occasionally by Trichomonas vaginalis or herpes simplex virus.

STDs: AIDS Is Not The Only Threat!

Concerns about AIDS in recent years have overshadowed other Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) that also have serious health consequences, including sterility, cancer or death. Some STDs can even make you more prone to the AIDS virus. Learn how to safeguard your health and recognize signs of an STD.

Sexually Transmitted Diseases or STD

Sexually transmitted diseases are infections that are often, if not always, passed from person to person through sexual contact. Because sexual activity provides an easy opportunity for organisms to find new hosts, a wide variety of infectious micro-organisms can be spread by sexual contact.