Awareness about methods to have sound reproductive health is not only beneficial to both mother and child but to the society at large. The benefits of these programmes are listed as follows: → Prevention of unwanted pregnancy by having knowledge about methods of contraception. → Prevention of high-risk pregnancy → Having medically-assisted deliveries → Planning pregnancy at an appropriate age when the mother is neither too young nor too old so as to maintain good health of both mother and child. → Appropriate spacing between two child births.