Teaching science, contraceptions at an Assam madarsa
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Women await their turn at a family planning clinic in Bihar
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People watch as a magician performs next to a man dressed as a condom, during an awareness program on International Condom Day in New Delhi.
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Rural trouble Survivors of the tubectomy camp in Bilaspur being treated
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Sudesh, 27, Kol tribal, Rewa
Lost his parents when young. Mentally unstable and unmarried, he was asked to come and clean his upper-caste neighbour’s house. Was lure...
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Lalita, age 35, Kol tribal, Rewa
Got sterilised on January 25 when her anganwadi worker informed her that her name would be struck off the BPL list. She has been promi...
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Lalit, 22, Kol tribal, Satna
Sterilised on February 12. Had to undergo vasectomy as his wife, an
anganwadi worker, had targets set for her by the district collector, ...
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Shyam Lal, 16, Kol tribal, Rewa
Forcibly sterilised on February 16. Was told that he was being treated for fever. Abandoned by the doctor in an unconscious state, had ...
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Sitakumari, 38, Kol tribal, Satna
Faced with the threat of having her name struck off the BPL list, she underwent tubectomy on February 15. Had seven daughters, and a ...
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Mohammed Shakeel and Kehkashan have three kids.
Big winnersKamal Verma and Mamta with their daughte
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Young girls walk past an activist of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals dressed as a condom hold a placard urging people about animal birth control ahead of the World Popu...
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Transvestites prepare for a fashion show featuring condom-decorated clothing, held concurrently with the Latin American and Carribean HIV/AIDS conference in San Salvador, El Salvad...
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A model displays condoms on a hat during a reproductive health expo in Beijing, China. The State Population and Family Planning Commission has reiterated that China would not relax...
Lack of access to contraceptives and family planning services during the COVID-19 induced lockdowns led to an alarming rise in the pregnancy rate across the nation, which in turn led to numerous abortions.
The health coordinators have been distributing two packets of condoms at quarantine centres, ASHA workers have been distributing them during door-to-door screening of people in home quarantine.
Integration of family planning and reproductive health services in nutrition programming, an important intervention, is often overlooked. There is a need for strong advocacy for empowering women through such programmes.
Plans are being chalked up to motivate the Rohingyas to keep their family size small alongside providing them with kits containing birth control pills and other contraceptives
Muslims constitute nearly 35 per cent of Assam’s 33 million people and the high birth rate among the community is a major source of friction over the state’s most volatile issue—undocumented immigrants, especially those from neighbouring Bangladesh.