Deadly target

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

Gender violence drops, but prevalence remains high in bigger states: NFHS-5

Karnataka, Assam and Sikkim registered biggest spike in cases of spousal violence 

This week from the world of science and environment

NGOs demanding a ban on oil drilling in Virunga National Park to the new NFHS revealing that many of India's women and children are stillanaemic&…

Third World women want smaller families

UNFPA to bow out

China

SOUTH AFRICA

Double victims

Latur earthquake victims being given false promises

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 …

COVID-19: At least 427 million people go into lockdown in India

No community transmission but national lockdown most essential, says ICMR director-general  

Family without mother

Protest>> Family Planning • Iran

Women to the fore

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

Religious planning

Shot to birth

A recently-developed Indian birth control vaccine is being debated to death

Lifting the barriers

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

CHINA

Showing the way

In the past 15 years, Mexico has halved its birth rate

UNITED NATIONS

How do Indian states handle cancer screening among women? NFHS-5 data reveals

Cervical, oral and breast cancers are prominent among women. In round 1 of NFHS-5, women aged between 30 and 49 years were asked whether they …

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&…

Diseases, lack of continuum of care perpetuating malnutrition among children: experts

Major gaps identifed by experts, include improper screening methods to identify malnourished children and treatment failures

Government issues draft guidelines for kidney donation

Hospitals in NCR cities will be included in the network along with hospitals of Delhi for the purpose of organ sharing and allocation

Contraceptive chaos

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

UN food agency launches digital platform on family farming

The move will allow governments to build stronger policies in favour of family farmers across the world

Blinded by figures

By 2010, the world's population will have gone up to 6 billion. But at the recent New York meeting on population and development, counting heads …