Abortion in India continues to face high levels of stigma - this stigma pushes women who seek it away from legal services; curtails free dissemination of information on abortion; and affects the delivery of essential services in the public .
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New Delhi: We have all heard the doomsday predictions about the implications of unchecked growth in Indiaâs population, and demands for a population-control law from politicians make the headlines every now and then.
But the fifth edition of the Union governmentâs National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5), released on 12 December, suggests the fears may be unfounded. According to data on fertility rates presented in the survey, Indiaâs population is stabilising.Â
A population is said to stabilise once it achieves what is known as replacement-level fertility â that is the total fertility rate at which a population exactly replaces itself from one generation to the next.Â
Condom use doubles in Mumbai but.
ByMalathy IyerMalathy Iyer / Updated: Dec 21, 2020, 10:38 IST
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MUMBAI: Even as the new National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) reveals India’s population is stabilising with more contraceptives used by married couples, a closer look at birth-control methods shows use of condoms has increased in the past five years while female sterilisations and oral contraceptive pill use has dropped marginally.
Experts said the changes speak to greater role of men in family planning. “These changes are seen in urban and rural areas of the 22 states and UTs surveyed,” said Dr Rajib Acharya of the Population Council of India.
Representative image
MUMBAI: Even as the new National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) reveals India’s population is stabilizing with more contraceptives used by married couples, a closer look at birth-control methods shows use of condoms has increased in the past five years while female sterilizations and oral contraceptive pill use has dropped marginally.
Experts said the changes speak to greater role of men in family planning. “These changes are seen in urban and rural areas of the 22 states and UTs surveyed,” said Dr Rajib Acharya of the Population Council of India.
Condom use doubles in Mumbai but still barely two of every 10 males opt for it
Oct 9, 2020
MASLI, India – Sliding out of their rickshaw, masks on, fresh sanitizer smeared across their hands, a team of health workers approached one of the mud-walled homes in Masli, a remote village in northeast India surrounded by miles of mountainous rainforest.
“Are you Amit Deb?” they asked a lean, shirtless man standing in his yard. Deb nodded cautiously. Five days earlier, he had tested positive for the coronavirus. Now his family members needed to be tested.
They all refused.
“We can’t afford to quarantine,” explained Deb, a shopkeeper. If anyone else in his family was found positive, they would all be ordered to stay inside, which would mean even more weeks of not working, which would push the family closer to running out of food.