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PRECONCEPTION CARE Maximizing the gains for mother and child health Preconception care is the care that you receive before you get pregnant. It is the provision of biomedical, behavioral, and social health interventions to women and couples before conception occurs. It involves finding and taking care of any problem that might affect you and your baby later like Diabetes mellitus or high blood pressure etc. Its main aim is to improve pregnancy outcome and women's health in general through prevention of diseases and management of risk factors. Also, its goal is to improve maternal and child health, in both short and long term. Opportunities to prevent and control diseases occur at multiple stages of life, and preconception care is one such effort. Even if preconception care aims primarily at improving maternal and child health, it brings health benefits to the adolescents, women, and men, irrespective of their plans to become parents. You will be prescribed Folic acid and multivitamins along with any other medicine as per the individual need. Why invest in preconception care? Preconception care has a positive effect on a range of health outcomes. Among others, preconception care can: • reduce maternal and child mortality • prevent unintended pregnancies • prevent complications during pregnancy and delivery • prevent stillbirths, preterm birth, and low birth weight • prevent birth defects • prevent neonatal infections • prevent underweight and stunting • prevent vertical transmission of HIV/STIs • lower the risk of some forms of childhood cancers • lower the risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease later in life.  

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