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Reproductive health is one of the important health aspects of an individual, couples and families as well as for the wellbeing communities. Studies suggest that many are unaware of this and place less importance to the concept of reproductive health. The reproductive health knowledge is important to take care of reproductive health-related functions, system and process of life. In major researches, reproductive health is merely focused on diseases related to sexuality or sexual and reproductive dysfunctions. In few researches, it has focused on either both female and male respondents or women respondent-related studies in the area of reproductive health. The role and responsibilities of men are neglected or ignored. There are very few studies in reproductive health among adolescent boys, and it has given least importance to educate adolescent boys than girls about reproductive health around the world. In this context, the researchers are focusing on the gap identified from the reviews as an important need to study reproductive health among adolescent boys. This study, therefore, initiated to understand the knowledge and attitude of adolescent boys about reproductive health. This current study result reveals that 52.9% of the respondents have lower attitude towards reproductive health. This shows the need to focus more attention on reproductive health education among adolescent boys. Current study by the researcher observes that educating adolescent boys will be great support for women reproductive health as well as reproductive health of the family. |
