How India's birth control battle falters in rural district

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It has been a losing battle in places like Kishanganj, which has the highest fertility rate of any district in India, soon to be the world's most populous nation.

She offers condoms and birth control pills for free in the Kishanganj district and talks to the couples about birth control and the benefits of having just two children.

Kishanganj, and Bihar, are exceptions in India, which has over decades controlled its population growth. Successive state governments have been aware of the population growth problem, particularly in Kishanganj, and have mounted programmes to curb it. Jahan Sheikh, a mother of four and pregnant for the fifth time, said she was not in favour of sterilisation.

A 2021 Bihar planning and development department report said the state had a sterilisation target of 871,307 people in 2020 but managed just 401,693 or 46%. Just minutes after giving birth to her fifth child at a government clinic in Kishanganj, Zamerun, the wife of a mason, said she would try to secure permission from her husband to undergo sterilisation before leaving for home.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

 

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