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Published in 2018
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Pakistan launched its family planning programme in mid-1950s. In 1990, the government launched a comprehensive Population Welfare Programme which became a major social action element in the provision of maternal and reproductive health services. Later, the government launched Family Planning and Primary Health Care programme (1994) and reached out to rural households through Lady Health […]
Published in 2014
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Every day, approximately 800 women across the world die due to preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. Asia accounts for a substantial number of these deaths with four South Asian Countries -Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and India contributing to highest proportion of these deaths. The complex socio-economic-political context and the geographical diversity of the region […]
Published in 2012
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Sex and reproduction are contentious issues: the divide between those who advocate for granting greater individual autonomy and those who argue for greater social control is evident at all political levels. To confer rights connected to the issues of sex and reproduction, UN conventions and conferences, such as the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination […]
Published in 2012
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The South Asian sub-region accounts for a substantial part of preventable maternal deaths in the world. Maternal mortality estimates remain high particularly in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. The maternal mortality ratio (MMR) of Bangladesh stands at 194, India 212, Nepal 281, and Pakistan 276. As many countries in South Asia do not have a […]
Published in 2006
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The Asia-Pacific is home to over a billion people between the ages of 10-24 but data on the incidence of induced abortion among this group are sparse, unrepresentative and incomplete, especially with respect to unmarried women. Continue reading arrow for change – the reality of unsafe abortion among adolescent and young women at Arrow.
Published in 2003
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In Asia, unsafe abortion accounts for 12 per cent of all maternal deaths, higher than in any other region of the world with an estimated 38,000 women dying each year from medical complications alone. Half of the world’s unsafe abortions (10.5 million) took place in Asia in 2000. About 14 unsafe abortions occur for every […]