Family Planning

For India to achieve development goals, investing in health and well-being of youths must be a priority

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of investing in young people’s sexual and reproductive health as well as mental well-being

World Contraception Day 2021: History, theme and significance of global event to raise awareness about family planning

Since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020, it has negatively impacted the well-being of women in multiple ways, including contraception, family planning and gender-based violence

World Contraception Day 2021: Why India’s contraceptive method mix is skewed towards female sterilisation

Treating family planning as an essential service available to all men and women and ensuring uninterrupted access to contraceptives is the way forward

China’s one-child time bomb: 16 percent over 60 in five years

China's one-child policy has prevented almost half a billion births but has turned into a demographic time bomb as the population ages, storing up huge economic and social problems for the country.

World Population Day: As UP invites suggestions, a look at India's history of population control

These critics argue that rich people have imposed population control on the poor for decades. And, they say, such coercive attempts to control the world's population often backfired and were sometimes harmful

World Population Day 2021: History, significance and theme of occassion observed on 11 July

Every year, World Population Day is observed on 11 July to draw people's attention towards overpoulation on a national as well as global level

Overburdened ASHA workers, lack of access to contraceptives: How COVID-19 impacted family planning services across India

COVID-19 impact on family planning: In the wake of the pandemic, ASHA workers had to shoulder additional responsibilities, which prevented them from creating awareness about family planning and distributing contraceptive pills and condoms

China's census records slowest population growth in decades, hints at demographic crisis

In 2016, Beijing changed family planning rules allowing families to have two kids amid fears of fast-ageing population and shrinking workforce

Unable to access maternity benefits, China's single mothers lobby for legal change amid cultural stigma

China’s population is rapidly aging, and the government is eager to promote higher birthrates, relaxing restrictive family planning laws in 2015 so that each family can have two kids. Yet, the laws have not changed as quickly with regards to single parents.

Amid poor reach of govt schemes, upscaling health and nutrition for underprivileged critical to absorb post-COVID-19 shock

Community health workforce like the ASHAs and Anganwadi workers, who are gatekeepers for all essential health and nutrition services during and post COVID-19 pandemic have to become resilient and equipped with adequate protective gear and necessary training.