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Discuss the major challenges related to women’s reproductive health in India. What measures would you suggest to overcome these challenges?

  • UPSC 2024
  • 20 marks
  • Population Dynamics

Maternal mortality has fallen to 93 per 100,000 live births (Sample Registration System, 2019–21) and institutional delivery to 90.6% (NFHS-6, 2023–24). Yet reproductive health as the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994) defined it — complete physical, mental and social wellbeing in all matters of the reproductive system — remains unrealised, because its…

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  • The method mix and the coercive residue
  • Nutrition, early marriage and the life-cycle
  • The autonomy deficit and the neglected agenda
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