The Central Government of India has initiated a comprehensive plan to provide intra-uterine contraceptive device (IUCD) insertion services at the health sub-centres. The IUCD insertion facilities will be provided at the sub-centres on fixed days and free of cost.According to the government that the decision will help adolescent mothers, who are married young and bear children at an early age. They lack awareness and access to contraception and are at the highest risk of maternal mortality and morbidity. But the strategy of Government of India on family planning has entirely neglected the quality of care and the side effects of IUCD insertion on a woman.
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A couple that chooses to give birth to a child conceived despite undergoing sterilization cannot demand money to raise it, National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has ruled.
Source: Times of India Read more Sumati Devi knew before she arrived at the grimy government clinic in northern India that she would be paid to be sterilized. She didn’t know that she would lie on an operating table with bloody sheets, that the scalpel used on her would be stained with rust, or that she was supposed to get counseling on other birth control methods before consenting to have her fallopian tubes cut and tied. The main reason Devi agreed was that the $10 she received—about a week’s wages for a poor family—would help feed her three children. “I did it out of desperation,” says Devi, 25, as she lies on the concrete floor recuperating at the clinic in Bihar state. “We need the money. Health officials came to our home. They told us it would be best.
Source: Bloomberg Business Week Read more “People say they are coming from Bangladesh,” said Ilias Ali, director of the Global Hospital in Guwahati and a partner in the National Rural Health Mission’s quest to bring family planning to the chars. “But they are not Bangladeshis; they are from undivided Bengal. If we invest money to education and health facilities, their numbers will go down.” Source: The New York Times Read more This document provides the list of schemes at central and state level which have included the two-child norm.
Source: National Coalition Against Two Child Norm and Coercive Population Polices Read more India began grappling with the magnitude of its population even before it became independent in 1947; it was labelled a crisis in the 1970s when the government of Indira Gandhi carried out mandatory sterilizations, en masse. But since those dark days, the country has emerged as a leader in the field, adopting the language of “reproductive health and rights.” Being surgically sterilized seems an extreme form of contraception for a young woman.
Source: The Globe and Mail Read More Anita had the first of her three children at 16, and was sterilized at 23 in 2010. "I had to do a lot of work to convince my in-laws. I was so tired, after three pregnancies in four years. Eventually they agreed. The government gave me R1,000 ($20.) The [health] worker double-checked with my in-laws before she took me to the hospital, because she knew she would get in trouble if they hadn’t agreed." This report has similar stories like the story above mentioned.
Source: The Globe and Mails Read More The Government of India issued an order dated 13 Feb 2013 that state governments should start paying the compensation directly to women. The states may ask for the compensation funds in their state PIPs.
What was most interesting is the 3rd Page of the GO which proposes how much money each state can ask for, and lists the amounts that have already been paid as compensation. Ironically it appears that Uttar Pradesh has paid out in the last 3 years an amount of Rs 4,02,29,983 as compensation (above 4 crores!) while Rajasthan has paid out Rs 5 crores and MP has paid out 3.6 crores. Source: Jharkhand Rural Health Mission, Reprohealth Listserv Read more Health takes a toll on lives of vulnerable people like women, girls and children in conflict and disaster affected areas. The conflict prone areas, suffer from a breakdown of health system, no medical facilities, non-availability of family planning methods, limited access to food and water, no medicine and disruption of all the routes of supply . Unavailability of family planning methods could lead to unwanted pregnancies among women. Executive director of the United Nations Population Fund, Babatunde Osotimehin said during an interview with the Associated Press at the Women Deliver conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, May 28, 2013 UNFPA wants to help an estimated 22 million women gain access to family planning services in territories emerging from conflicts and natural disasters. Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation Read more UK government's Department for International Development (DFID) has agreed to roll out a reproductive health framework project worth Rs 40 crore to address the need for family planning and reproductive health services in Odisha, official sources said. The objective is to reduce deaths from unwanted pregnancies and reduce fertility rates in the state, Health Minister Damodar Rout said, adding, that the project will help increase contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) from 38 per cent to 48 per cent by 2015.
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