Sexual and Reproductive Health

Testing and treatment

STI symptoms in girls

What factors make STI infection more likely?

How do STIs enter the body?

Why is it important f to be aware of STIs?

What are STIs ?

Family planning is central to gender equality and women’s empowerment, and it is a key factor in reducing poverty. Yet in developing regions, an estimated 232 million women who want to avoid pregnancy are not using safe and effective family planning methods, for reasons ranging from lack of access to information or services to lack of support from their partners or communities. This threatens their ability to build a better future for themselves, their families and their communities

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is an infection that attacks the body’s immune system, specifically the white blood cells called CD4 cells. HIV destroys these CD4 cells, weakening a person’s immunity against infections such as tuberculosis and some cancers.

Good sexual and reproductive health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being in all matters relating to the reproductive system. It implies that people are able to have a satisfying and safe sex life, the capability to reproduce, and the freedom to decide if, when, and how often to do so.

Sexually Transmissible Infections (STI) are infections, which are transmitted/acquired mainly through unprotected, vaginal, anal or oral intercourse. However, some are transmitted from mother to child before or during birth, through unsafe blood donations, Products, instruments, through genital trauma i.e. rape/other violent acts of man’s sexual assertions of supremacy.