Q.What are the strategies to be implemented in India to attain total reproductive health?

Step 1. Build awareness and provide medical assistance so people understand and can access reproductive healthcare — this is the founding goal of India's 'Reproductive and Child Health Care (RCH)' programme, running since the 1951 Family Planning Programme.

Step 2. Introduce sex education in schools so adolescents understand the physical and hormonal changes of adolescence, reducing ignorance-driven risk.

Step 3. Educate couples and people of marriageable age about the available birth-control methods and family-planning norms, so pregnancies are wanted and well-spaced.

Step 4. Create awareness about care for pregnant women, post-natal care of the mother and child, and the importance of breast-feeding, supported by schemes such as Janani Suraksha Yojana, Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakaram and the RMNCH+A approach. …

List the major RCH strategy components: awareness, sex education, birth-control access, maternal …

• Naming only one strategy (e.g. just birth control) instead of covering the full multi-pronged RCH approach. …