Adapting health interventions to the social, economic, political, ecological, and cultural contexts of local communities increases trust and acceptability for policies and programmes. Locally led initiatives
Project ‘Meri Shakti Meri Beti’, which has been running in Delhi for the past several years, is now all set to roll out in Gurgaon and Manesar. The project, implemented by the Centre for Social Research
Court Asks Doc To Pay For Maintenance Of Child Ahmedabad: Inspired by the government slogan of ‘Hum Do, Hamare Do', 40-year-old Madhu Solanki, a farm labourer, opted for family planning operation. But
Health workers attribute it to fertility problems The government lower primary school at Nadukkudy in India’s first tribal grama panchayat, Edamalakkudy, has a peculiar student-teacher ratio. It has five teachers, including a headmaster, for seven students who represent eight Muthuva tribal hamlets nearby.
<p>The recent decline in fertility in India has been unprecedented especially in southern India, where fertility is almost exclusively controlled by means of permanent contraceptive methods, mainly female
Mumbai: Maharashtra’s child population (age 0-6 years) is on the decline. Demographers say that the primary census abstract 2011 shows that Maharashtra has joined the southern states in a phase of replacement
Stating that by 2030 India’s population will be the highest in the world and cross 170 crore in 2060, a public interest writ petition has been filed in the Supreme Court for a direction to the Centre to
Acknowledging that maternal mortality rate in the state is 8.9% due to unsafe abortions and around 15,000 women die annually across the nation due to it, the NRHM (National Rural Health Mission) authorities
Dismayed at the Census 2011 figures that highlighted the decline in child sex ratio (0-6 years) to 914 girls for every 1,000 boys as compared to 927 in 2001, over 200 civil society organisations this past
PUNE: The state government's plan to inspect sonography clinics and abortion centres in a month-long drive has fallen flat within three days of its launch as only a few district and civic administrations
PUNE: All government and private hospitals are now required to keep a display board of the sex ratio at birth, based on the number of deliveries of boys and girls taking place on their premises. The state
