The Five Year Plans for economic development, which started in 1951, recognized it as a prerequisite for a happier life for the family and also for the country. In the First Plan a moderate programme of family planning was undertaken and the progress achieved was very slow. During the Second...
Family PlanningEducationReligionThe government of India started family planning programmes in 1952 with an objective of reducing birth rate to the extent necessary for stablization of population at a level consistent with requirement of national economy. Though the family planning programme was not ...
With emphasis on sterilization only high parity older women accepted the method and the young high fertile lower parity women were not covered by the programme. While other developing countries such as China South Korea Malaysia Indonesia started their family planning programmes with spacing methods ...
In the sexual and reproductive health approach, family planning services are not ‘demographic posts.’ Women are not ‘targets’ for contraception, for which policymakers and administrators set ‘quota’ for services to accomplish. As the ICPD Programme of Action states, “Family planning programmes...
Training of opinion leaders in family planning in India: does it serve any purpose? Community leaders are known to play a crucial role in the diffusion of innovations. The government of India started an ambitious programme for the training... V Sharma,A Sharma - 《Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique...
In Rwanda, only 20% of sexually active unmarried young women use family planning as compared to 64% of married women. Adolescence is an important time of growth and development that often includes the initiation of sexual activity. Sexually active adoles
In the ever-evolving world of travel, using a travel professional to decode your family vacation options can really pay off. Here are several things to bear in mind: Is it travel time? Before the pandemic, planning a vacation took time, knowledge, patience and perseverance. While the pace ...
Recent increases in family planning (FP) use have been reported among women of reproductive age in union (WRAU) in Senegal. However, trends have not been monitored among harder-to-reach groups (including adolescents, unmarried and rural poor women), key to understanding whether FP progress is ...
Under Bush's proposals, migrant workers would remain vulnerable to abuse by unscrupulous employer-sponsors because any transgression could result in their deportation. Moreover, Germany's postwar "guest worker" programme kept German-born Turks "guests" in their own home for far too long. "It's...
Following theUnited NationsConference on the HumanEnvironment, held in Stockholm in 1972, the UN established theUnited Nations Environment Programme(UNEP) as the world’s principal international environmental organization. Although UNEP oversees many modern-day agreements, it has little power to impose ...