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]Covid-19 and a surge in unplanned pregnancies in India
The article has been authored by Dr Ratnabali Chakravorty, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist; Director, MAGS IVF and Infertility Centre, chairperson, National Advocacy Committee, Indian Menopause Society.
Updated on Oct 19, 2021 02:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times
Can’t force couples to have only two children: Centre to Supreme Court
In its affidavit in the top court, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) maintained that the Family Welfare Programme in India gives couples the right to decide the size of their family without any compulsion.
Updated on Dec 12, 2020 04:19 PM IST
Covid-19 exacerbates the risk of unsafe abortions | Opinion
The lack of safe abortion facilities will have an impact on both health and family planning long after the coronavirus crisis is overcome, both in terms of unwanted pregnancies and unsafe abortions. Planning for this now is the only option
Updated on Jul 26, 2020 05:43 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker
World Population Day 2020: Raising awareness about the health and rights of women amid the coronavirus pandemic
World Population Day is observed in an attempt to raise awareness about the importance of family planning, adoption, gender equality, poverty, maternal health and human rights.
Updated on Jul 11, 2020 01:24 PM IST
HIndustan Times, Delhi | hindustantimes.com
Centre to draft roadmap for achieving ‘population stabilisation’
The consultative meeting is being organised in partnership with the Population Foundation of India (PFI) along with senior officials, experts and subject matter specialists.
Published on Dec 20, 2019 01:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Defend the woman’s autonomy, right to choose
In theory, India’s position on abortion is progressive. In practice, the law is flawed and punishes women
Published on Nov 19, 2019 07:43 PM IST
Anubha Rastogi and Raunaq Chandrashekar
ICPD @ 25: India must prioritise reproductive rights
ICPD would be a tough act to follow but when we reconvene at ICPD+25, I hope it will give us renewed fervour, energy and thought leadership to work towards the unfinished agenda
Updated on Nov 11, 2019 02:06 PM IST
Poonam Muttreja
The importance of family planning in creating healthier families
Implementing the family planning programme should not be seen only in terms of contraception but through methods of achieving the larger goals of maternal and child health
Updated on Sep 26, 2019 03:58 PM IST
Sunil Mehra
The population debate: Involve men in care and planning
Family planning which focuses only on women, and executed largely by women workers, will not yield the appropriate results. Male workers can convince men of the need for institutional deliveries and inform husbands of the need to be involved in child care
Published on Aug 31, 2019 07:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Lalita Panicker
Bihar poised to become 2nd most populous state by 2041
Bihar’s child per woman ratio is 3.3, higher than the national average of 2.3. The state also has a significant number of teenage births. Out of the annual 30 lakh births in the state, 3.5 lakh (approx.) are teenage births, contributing to the state’s high maternal and infant mortality as well as morbidity.
Published on Jul 11, 2019 10:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Patna | Ruchir Kumar
Review: The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates
Melinda Gates’ first book documents how she evolved from a career woman to a mother to one of the world’s biggest champions of gender equity
Updated on May 03, 2019 07:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanchita Sharma
Suffering birth pangs, China could scrap two-child policy to allow more
China could discuss the complete withdrawal of its family planning policy to allow citizens to have as many children they want during the upcoming session of its parliament in March, a population policy expert has said.
Updated on Jan 22, 2019 06:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Beijing | Sutirtho Patranobis
‘Indian women are more empowered today ’: UNFPA executive director
Dr Natalia Kanem, executive director of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says women in India today are much more empowered to take their own decisions about their fertility and with whom, when and how to space their children.
Updated on Dec 14, 2018 02:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Sanchita Sharma, New Delhi
Free contraceptives, but only for the wedded
Fertility decline has been the slowest in Bihar, which is the third-most populated state after Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, with a population of 110 million. Bihar is the only state in the country where couples on average continue to have more than three children, which had led the state’s total fertility rate (TFR) —the average number of births a woman has in her lifetime – stay at a high 3.4, according to National Family Health Survey-4, 2016.
Published on Dec 10, 2018 07:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Samasthipur (Bihar) | Sanchita Sharma
Father’s age can play a role in pregnancy outcome, baby’s health
A new study shows that as the age of the father increases so does the risk of the infant being born prematurely, having low birth weight and requiring healthcare support after delivery.
Updated on Nov 02, 2018 05:23 PM IST
Indo Asian News Service | HT Correspondent
Anganwadi worker sacked for having three kids moves Bombay HC
The anganwadi wodker received a written communication from the state authorities in March informing her that she was being dismissed from work since she had three children.
Updated on Sep 29, 2018 02:17 PM IST
Mumbai | Press Trust of India
Two-kid rule in Maharashtra’s housing societies made to promote family planning: Experts
The rule ars people with more than two children from contesting elections in residential societies.
Updated on Aug 31, 2018 01:44 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Yesha Kotak, Mumbai
World Population Day: Family planning, migration and India’s changing demographics
Falling fertility and ageing populations in developed states will create huge employment gaps that will be filled by migrants from underdeveloped north
Updated on Jul 11, 2018 09:20 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Sanchita Sharma
World Population Day 2018: Most adolescents have no family planning info
India needs youth-focused sexual and reproductive health programmes, along with quality education, to unleash its economic potential, says Lester Coutinho, deputy director, family planning program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Updated on Jul 11, 2018 08:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Sanchita Sharma
The rights and wrongs of using retinoid for good skin
The picture of a 78-year-old with beautiful skin went viral, causing a sudden buzz around the use of retinoids. Experts tell us how healthy these vitamins are.
Updated on Jun 23, 2018 06:02 PM IST
Men must be involved more in family planning
Improve the scope of male sterilisation services, which are at present inadequate.
Updated on Jun 21, 2018 07:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
Woman with 18 children says ‘fertility fame’ did nothing to end poverty
Bissar of Haryana village become a curiosity show of sorts after she was featured in a Hindi media. Headlines didn’t end her family’s hardscrabble life.
Updated on Jun 14, 2018 03:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Gurgaon | Leena Dhankhar
UP govt’s ‘shagun’ for newly-weds includes condoms, pregnancy test
This shagun is part of Nai Pahal Scheme under the National Health Mission and is aimed at raising awareness about the need of adopting temporary and permanent methods of family planning by young couples.
Updated on May 15, 2018 12:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Allahabad | Smriti Malaviya
Every third Wednesday to be observed as Male Sterilisation Day
The condition of male sterilisation has been pitiable over the last few years.
Updated on May 06, 2018 10:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | P Srinivasan
Kerala Man’s FB post on why he got a vasectomy goes viral for all the right reasons
“Why is the responsibility of family planning imposed only upon women and not men?”
Updated on Apr 07, 2018 05:47 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent