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Day of Reproductive Health
The American Fertility Association (AFA,
www.theafa.org) is an
American non-for-profit organization founded in 1999. It
provides education and support to men and women in the filed
of reproductive health, protection of fertility and starting
of families. One of the major groups to which AFA helps are
the people suffering from infertility. They are offered e.g.
the necessary information about infertility diagnostics and
treatment and about adoption. AFA focuses its attention on
improvement of the awareness about medical and social topics
in the field of reproductive health and infertility, as well
as the related prevention. AFA seeks to provide assistance
to young people so that they can make qualified choices in
their sexual lives and when starting families.
In 2002 AFA for the first time declared June the World
Infertility Month. The purposes of the campaign is to
support the efforts of million of involuntarily childless
couples worldwide, to inform the general public about
infertility issues and to create preconditions for better
opportunities to resolve these complicated situations in
their lives.
In 2005 this campaigns was for the first time joined by the
Maternity Hope Foundation and other co-organizers in the
Czech Republic. The Day of Reproductive Health, with the
subtitle "What to do have children if and when you want to
have them ", is an afternoon of lectures which produces
reviewed proceedings. At the title indicates, the purposes
of the event is not just to inform about available methods
to resolve involuntary childlessness, their effectiveness
and related psychosocial health issues, but also to deal
with prevention in reproductive healthcare. The Day of
Reproductive Health seeks to focus the attention on factors
which reduce the changes to have children and because the
woman´s age is one of the major factors it also addressed
the psychosocial causes behind the postponement of
parenthood.
The target groups of the Day of Reproductive Health are many
and diverse: the people whose desire to have children has
not been fulfilled for any reason whatsoever; the people who
are only thinking about starting a family and becoming
parents; professionals who are able to benefit from the
context of biological, psychological and social aspects from
the fields in which they are not directly specialized.
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