Pill on net

The ideal gap

A two-and-a-half-year gap is ideal between births for the health of the babies

World Population Day: call to end India's target-based approach to family planning

Two-child norm is endangering women's lives and skewing sex-ratio, say activists

Women interrupted

Surgical removal of uterus causes unnatural menopause, leads to memory decline

Male birth control options are in development, but a number of barriers still stand in the way

There has not been a new form of male birth control since no-scalpel vasectomy in 1980s

Let’s talk sex

Awareness campaign changes attitude towards sexual health and family planning in Bihar

Birth control pangs

Injectable contraceptives raise alarm

Deadly target

Health experts blame Centre's over-emphasis on women's sterilisation for the Chhattisgarh tragedy

Money matters

Sonal Matharu finds out how schemes for women and children are all about making money and neglect their health

Population populism: UP draft population bill will impact the vulnerable, especially women

The focus must be on safeguarding women and girls’ reproductive health. Smaller families can be achieved by ensuring gender equality, …

Use of contraceptives in Bihar doubles in 5 years: NFHS-5

Female sterilisation was the most common method of contraception in the state

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

When birth control means business

Government’s scheme to give monetary remuneration to health workers for counselling couples on family planning may just backfire, says …

Contraceptive use among women rises in western states, Goa tops the charts: NFHS-5 data

Use of injectables and male sterilisation tools continued to be low across all states in the region 

Impatient to sterilise

In a hurry to bring down fertility rate, health officials are blatantly flouting government’s guidelines

Out of control

Parts of India still struggle to stabilise population growth

Science & Technology - Briefs

Operation cover-up

Rat poison theory offered by the Chhattisgarh government to explain the sterilisation deaths is a facade, finds an investigation by Jyotsna Singh.…