India has 17% of the global population and will soon overtake China’s, reaching 1.75 billion by 2050 (medium projections).
A major cause is young girls, deprived of reproductive rights, who bear children, each with poor health and increased mortality.
To help counter this, The National Population Stabilization Fund, Government of India rewards families which delay marriage and practice birth spacing, promotes contraceptives and voluntary sterilization, ensures registration of marriage and is starting service through call centres.
The 8 minute video is based on a presentation at the APACPH Conference in Dec. 2009 by Prof. Pramod C. Samantaray, Principal Program Coordinator
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