Fresh drive to close gaps on health issues facing women and girls

Local capacities critical to making a difference must be strengthened

US anti-abortion policy spiked unwanted pregnancies in Africa: Study

The Mexico City Policy bans aids to NGOs for performing or promoting abortions as a method of family planning

Empowering women lies at the centre of controlling population growth in Africa

The goal of family planning programmes is not to hit population targets but to empower women so they can choose the number of children they will …

Why social health activists in India live a life of uncertainty

More than 0.87 million ASHAs in India are facing salary issues, lack of incentives and exclusion from social safety schemes

सरकार असफल या नसबंदी?

नसबंदी के बाद गर्भ ठहरने की शिकायतें देशभर से आ रही हैं, वहीं इसके एवज में मुआवजा लेने के लिए लोगों को अदालत जाना ...

Restrictions on airing condom ads is absurd at best

The least that the government could have done is issue guidelines for such advertisements

Why the Budget should increase allocation towards health and family planning

Low spending by India in these two areas has caused growing inequality, insufficient access and poor quality of healthcare services

Contraceptive chaos

Copper-T better in emergency, but doctors do not encourage its use

Genocidal attitude

Photograph>> Family Planning • China

People trying to curb people

With the Vatican already on the offensive and various unresolved rifts, fireworks are definitely on the agenda of the upcoming population …

Momentum lost

Women on the warpath

BANGLADESH

COMBODIA

What Cairo did not discuss

Centre tightens the leash

Restrictions won't curb population growth

A matter of life and death

PERU

BRAZIL

Third World women want smaller families

UNFPA to bow out

China

SOUTH AFRICA

Family without mother

Protest>> Family Planning • Iran