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#India- Activists decry linking maternity benefits to population control #Vaw #Reproductiverigghts

New Delhi, Jan 26 — Civil society groups have expressed shock at a parliamentary panel’s recommendation to restrict the nutritional support under government schemes to only two children per family and to disqualify mothers of more children from maternity benefits…. Continue Reading →

Cash Prizes Fuel India’s Sterilization Overdrive #Vaw #Coercion #Reproductiverights

By Swapna Majumdar WeNews correspondent Wednesday, December 5, 2012 Spurred by cash incentives, state workers in the state of Rajasthan offer prizes to women to undergo tubal ligation in mass sterilization drives. Critics call it a coercive process that restricts… Continue Reading →

A doctor on why late abortion should remain legal #reproductiverights

Amid signs that ministers are keen to reopen the debate, Frances Marks writes about the terrible consequences of illegal terminations that she saw in the 60s – and why the law must not be changed   The 2004 film Vera… Continue Reading →

Petition to Union Health Minister- ” Abortion is not murder” #vaw #womenrights #reproductiverights

  Respected Sir, We strongly protest against the letter sent by the Maharashtra government to the Centre to amend the PCPNDT Act, 1994 so that sex selection can be treated as murder, punishable under section 302 of the IPC.First of… Continue Reading →

Petition to Union Health Minister- ” Abortion is not murder” #vaw #womenrights #reproductiverights

  Respected Sir, We strongly protest against the letter sent by the Maharashtra government to the Centre to amend the PCPNDT Act, 1994 so that sex selection can be treated as murder, punishable under section 302 of the IPC.First of… Continue Reading →

#India – Womb and Wolves #Vaw #Womenrights #medicalethics

By Swagata Yadavar, THE WEEK Story Dated: Monday, April 15, 2013 15:8 hrs IST Guddi devi, 27: She had sought treatment for a simple stomach ache. The doctor prescribed hysterectomy. Today, with all her vitality sapped, she feels it was… Continue Reading →

#Chhattisgarh #Andhra – Setback to health insurance

Published on Down To Earth (http://www.downtoearth.org.in) Setback to health insurance Author(s): Kundan Pandey 0 Comments Author(s): Kundan Pandey Issue Date: Apr 30, 2013 Private hospitals in Chhattisgarh, Andhra refuse to treat under government insurance scheme Strengthening primary healthcare facilities would cost one-third… Continue Reading →

Andhra Pradesh – Private hospitals may pull out of Aarogyasri #healthcare

As was anticipated and warned, the private healthcare industry is showing its true colours and indulging in supplier ‘hold-up’ and increasing the costs. TNN | Apr 4, 2013, HYDERABAD: Private hospitals in the city will pull the plug on the state’s flagship… Continue Reading →

Setback to Chhattisgarh health care services

SUVOJIT BAGCHI, The Hindu, March 30, 2013 Private hospitals refuse treatment under government insurance schemes The Chhattisgarh government has had to accept yet another setback while trying desperately to rope in private players to strengthen public health care services. At… Continue Reading →

#India -Do you know incentive and target based health services can be coercive ? #Vaw

Permanent sterilization-incentive based and target based health services: a glimpse from Rajasthan – Leena Uppal My elder sister in law was the one who suggested that I should go for female sterilization, if I get lucky I may win a motor… Continue Reading →

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