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Deaths due to malnutrition highest among children in Pakistan: report
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 30 (ANI): Unhygienic atmosphere and lack of family planning are attributed to malnutrition and early death among children in Pakistan.
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Scientists developing once-a-month oral contraceptive pill
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 26 (ANI): A team of researchers from the Brigham and Women's Hospital and MIT is designing a new method to help improve adherence and reduce the risk of pregnancy by offering an oral contraceptive that could be taken once a month.
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Chairman of the PM's EAC speaks on the importance of investing in adolesce
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 16 (ANI/NewsVoir): On 15 November, Bibek Debroy, the Chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, released a study commissioned by the Population Foundation of India, a national NGO founded fifty years ago by the industrialist JRD Tata.
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Family Planning Association of India highlights rising gender differential
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 5 (ANI): On the occasion of World Heart Day, which was celebrated on September 29, leading public health experts and women doctors called for immediate policy interventions to prevent a hypertension epidemic in India.
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China discards 3 laws on family planning
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Beijing [China], September 27 (ANI): China's State Council on Sunday scrapped the three laws related to family planning policies, including laws on family planning, work for the migrant population social maintenance fees and technical services for family planning.
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Chinese legislature approves amendments on third child policy: Reports
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Beijing [China], August 20 (ANI/Sputnik): The Chinese National People's Congress (NPC) on Friday voted to approve amendments to the Population and Family Planning Law allowing couples to have a third child, the Xinhua news agency reported.
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NHRC directs Odisha Chief Secy to compensate for Tubectomy negligence
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 7 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the Odisha Chief Secretary to pay Rs 1 lakh as compensation to the victim of medical negligence whose urinary tract has been cut while conducting family planning operation and to submit compliance repor
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China not scrapping birth caps entirely due to strictly enforced family pl
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Hong Kong, June 2 (ANI): Bucking the trend, China has announced this week that it will allow couples to have three children in a bid to boost its population, but some experts are questioning over why Beijing did not scrap birth caps entirely? The reason might be Xinjiang.
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Researchers find how climate change is driving some to skip having kids
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 22 (ANI): A new study drove by the University of Arizona found that overconsumption, overpopulation and uncertainty about the future are among the top concerns of those who say climate change is affecting their reproductive decision-making.
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Against involuntary methods of family planning, Centre tells SC
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 12 (ANI): The Central government has submitted before the Supreme Court that it is against the involuntary methods of family planning for population control and added that Family Welfare Programme in India is voluntary in nature.
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Hospitals in Xinjiang were forced to abort, kill babies born outside famil
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 19 (ANI): Hospitals in Xinjiang have been forced to abort and kill babies born in excess of family planning limits, Radio Free Asia reported citing a Uyghur obstetrician who worked in multiple hospitals in China's northwest province.
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US lashes out at China over forced population controls against Uyghurs
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], June 30 (ANI): US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday (local time) condemned coercive family planning against Uyghurs and said that continuous repression of minorities in Xinjiang reflects that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has no respect for human life and ba
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