HEALTHY POLICY

AFRICA

Chhattisgarh tribals to get sterilisation facilities after 30 years

Planning Commission asks state to ensure no discrimination

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

Local capacities critical to making a difference must be strengthened

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

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

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

Out of control

Parts of India still struggle to stabilise population growth

Science & Technology - Briefs

Restrictions on airing condom ads is absurd at best

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

Just 12% women in Nigeria used modern contraceptive methods: Report

Over 83 per cent women in Nigeria were not using any contraceptive methods for pregnancy prevention in 2018

Nigeria’s cities are growing fast: Family planning must be part of urban development plans

Urban poverty that already afflicts 42% of urban residents in Nigeria is set to rise

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

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 …

World @ 8 billion: WHO handbook now covers family planning during epidemics, high-risk HIV

Practical measures detailed to support the continuity of family planning services during emergencies

Community welfare works as a contraceptive

In Pakistan, they are controlling population growth by raising the living standards of local communities through Pasbaan, the social …

Women to the fore

The International Conference on Population and Development is doing more than just providing lip service to the cause of women

Lifting the barriers

Reproductive choice, gender equality and sustainable development are closely connected, say the latest report on the world's population

Over 3 lakh pregnancy losses every year linked to polluted air in South Asia

Northern plains region in India and Pakistan most impacted, meeting India’s air quality standard would have reduced loss by 7 per cent&…