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(Birth Control) and Family Planning".
Contraception (birth control)
is a regimen of one or more actions, devices, or medications followed in
order to deliberately prevent or reduce the likelihood of a woman
becoming pregnant or giving birth. Therefore contraception is the
utilization of various and sundry surgical procedures, devices,
practices, agents, or drugs with the intention of preventing conception
or impregnation (pregnancy). Methods and intentions typically termed
birth control may be considered a pivotal ingredient to family
planning. Birth control is a controversial political and ethical
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Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning |
| India's family planning program in the seventies. pt. 1. The problem, the |
| task, the performance, the future. |
| Ford Foundation. India Field Office. Family Planning Consultancy Team |
| New Delhi, India, Ford Foundation, April 1, 1970. 84 p. 0 ref |
| India's current (1970) estimated birth rate is 39/1000. The official family welfare program through fertility control |
| seeks to reduce that rate to 25/1000 by 1980. 5.2 million births were averted in the 1960's; 60 million births are to be |
| averted in the 1970s. The Indian program is hampered by being spread over 560,00 separate villages and 3,000 |
| towns and cities with diverse languages and customs. Mass media reaches only the 20% of the population which is |
| urban; the 80% rural population is just beginning to be reached. Politically, individual states are emerging as |
| powerful entities; each one of the 17 states is free to deal with the national family planning program as they see fit. |
| Sterilizations, condoms, and IUDs (Lippes Loop) are the types of birth control most found in government clinics. |
| There are over 50,000 contraceptive service centers throughout the states but no more than 1000 of these are fully |
| equipped. Traditions in India still prohibit contraceptive usage. Married couples often share sleeping quarters with |
| others in their family. Indian women stoically accept their lot as childbearers and servants to men. (PubHealth.info |
| Document ID: CONT8T 4058-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "India's family planning program in the seventies. pt. 1. |
| The problem, the task, the performance, the future.", is(are) Ford Foundation. India Field Office. Family Planning |
| Consultancy Team. The source of this article is "New Delhi, India, Ford Foundation, April 1, 1970. 84 p. 0 ref". This |
| article was published in 1970 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT8T 4058-06. All rights |
| reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 39058 |
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