The Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) initiative, launched at the 2012 London Summit on Family Planning, aims to enable 120 million additional women to use modern contraceptive methods by 2020 in the world’s 69 poorest countries. It will require almost doubling the pre-2012 annual growth rate of modern contraceptive prevalence rates …
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Brazil Making Condoms To Stem Amazon Losses, AIDS BRAZIL: April 8, 2008 BRASILIA - The Brazilian government began producing condoms on Monday using rubber from trees in the Amazon, a move it said would help preserve the world's largest rainforest and cut dependence on imported contraceptives given away to fight …
depo-provera, a hormonal contraceptive injection approved for use by women has been found to increase the risk of diabetes in some women. The study, done by the researchers from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, was carried on 526 Latino women who have an increased propensity of diabetes …
a banned female sterilisation method is in use in the rural areas of West Bengal, Karnataka, Punjab and Gujarat. So concludes a study conducted by researchers from Canada-based McGill University. Its results, made public during a meet organised in New Delhi on December 4, 2003, are alarming, as the method …
The paanwallah -doubling-up-as-a-condom-vendor ad has been taken off the air. Instead, Doordarshan (dd) will show a village council member warning women about aids and exhorting them to be faithful. The shift in focus heralds a drastic change in India's aids prevention policy. No longer condom-centric. Harping on abstinence and fidelity. …
the recent decision of the Supreme Court to include Net En, an injectable hormonal contraceptive, in the family programme has led to controversy. According to medical experts, the contraceptives should not be given to women having hypertension, diabetes, liver problems or to lactating mothers and pregnant women. The side effects, …
THh Union government has issued a notification banning the use of quinacrine for female sterilisation/contraception. The notification bans quinacrine in pellet form for use as a contraceptive, Anyone violating the provision of the Act would be punishable with imprisonment for a term, which may extend to three years or a …
The Drug Controller of India, on March 16, has written to the Supreme Court that the use of Quinachrine, a drug used for female sterilisation, should be banned in India. The decision came following a joint writ petition filed by the All India Democratic Women's Association faculty members of the …
THE COMPLETE PICTURE: Televisions all over the world display only 88 per cent of the image broadcast by TV stations. Now, Korean-based electronics company, Samsung is developing televisions that will display the missing 12 per cent. Called HiTron TV sets, these televisions are 2.5 centimetres wider than usual. Conventional TV …
emergency contraception is a safe and effective method to protect women from induced abortions, according to American researchers. At present, steroid hormone pills and copper releasing intrauterine devices ( iud s) are the two emergency contraceptives mainly used by people. Among the steroidal preparations, high dose oestrogens, oestrogen-progesten combinations and …
a reversible male contraceptive has been been developed by a team of scientists at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, which could be an alternative to vasectomy. According to S K Guha, who headed the team, a polymer
the development of a genetically engineered virus as a birth control measure is causing controversy in Australia. The virus has been developed to contain the growing populations of mice and other pests. Some scientists say the contraceptive viruses could prove to be an ecological disaster if non-targeted species are infected …
the contraceptive pill, discovered in the 1960s, has a success rate of 99.9 per cent and is one of the most popular contraceptives. It is said to have revolutionised women's lifestyles. But it is now known that the pill can cause problems such as weight gain, headaches, and disturbance in …
THE United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA) report on the global populace was released by Wasim Zaman, representative of the UNFPA in India, in New Delhi on May 28. The State of World Population 1997 focuses on the reproductive rights and reproductive health of every man and woman. While the report …
a contraceptive that has been denied permission for clinical trials in the us as it is a suspected mutagen (substance that can change genetic material), is reportedly being tested with private American aid on thousands of women in India. The tests are being carried out in several government hospitals including …
the first once-a-month injectable contraceptive for males - a shot in the arm for the first sex - is being developed by a Bangalore-based scientist. Raghuvir Moudgal of the Indian Institute of Science, recently said in a meeting held at the Indian National Science Academy (insa), "We have tested the …
a plant powder reportedly used by the adivasis of Bihar as oral contraceptive, has been confirmed by scientists to have anti-pregnancy effects. A recent report said that the claims of tribal folklore, confirmed by modern scientific techniques, can actually show new ways of family planning. A medical team comprising A …
Elephants of the Kruger National Park are once again in the centre of a controversy. Recently, the park officials introduced contraception as an alternative to culling to control the exploding numbers of the pachyderms. Last month, South African and American scientists injected 21 female elephants with pig zona pellucida (p …
