Family farming crucial to sustainable development goals

As smallholders face a broad range of barriers, extending all possible help to them is imperative

Restrictions on airing condom ads is absurd at best

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

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

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

National Health Profile 2015: Suicides on a rise, cancer cases may grow by 15 per cent in five years

India’s public spending on health is among the lowest in South East Asia and BRIC countries

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 

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

Masochist masculinity

That's what's behind India's skewed sex ratio

Genocidal attitude

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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 …

Momentum lost

Women on the warpath

BANGLADESH

COMBODIA

Push to create cadre of family doctors for rural India

Government's National Health Systems Resource Centre is finalising recommendations which are likely to seek inclusion of family medicine in MBBS …

World Diabetes Day: Family key for its detection & prevention

The theme for World Diabetes Day 2018 and 2019 is family and diabetes

'Family farmers need technical assistance to adapt to climate change impacts'

Most increases in agricultural yields required to feed a world population set to touch 9 billion by 2050 will take place in rural regions and …

What Cairo did not discuss

Centre tightens the leash

Restrictions won't curb population growth

A matter of life and death

PERU

BRAZIL

Positive partnership

Kerala sees sharp fall in sex ratio at birth despite being best in overall category

Bihar and Maharashtra are other major states where sex ratio at birth declined