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World Contraception Day-26 September
September 26 , 2017
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- Main aim of the day is -Promotion of family planning and ensuring access to preferred contraceptive methods for women and couples is essential to securing the well-being and autonomy of women.
- Allowing women to choose whether, when, and how many children to have, achieves progress on global health goals.
Tamilnadu Status
- The latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS) for 2015-16 has found that Tamilnadu has seen an eight per cent decline in use of all kinds of contraceptives in the last decade.
- Use of any family planning method (currently married women age 15–49 years) fell to 53.2% in 2015-16 from 61.4% (in 2005-06)
- Female sterilization has come down to 49.4% from 55.0%
- Male sterilization is currently 0.0% from 0.4%
- Tamil Nadu government has recently launched the ‘Antara scheme’ that provides free injectable contraceptives to women from 18-45 thrice a year. Such schemes are of particular help to women who do not want to permanently lose their fertility, but merely want to delay pregnancy.
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