Question

What are the programmes listed under the maternity and child health and family planning.

Answer 1

India became the first country in the world to initiate the family planning program in 1952 with the goal of lowering fertility and slowing the population growth rate. Various programmes listed are:

• Family Welfare Program and the Child Survival and Safe Motherhood Program have been integrated with the Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) Program, addressing aspects such as client choice, service quality, gender issues and underserved groups, including adolescents.
  
• RMNCH+A (Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and Adolescents) program.
  
• Interventions to focus on the rollout of new contraceptives, institutionalization of fixed day services with an aggressive focus on quality in family planning, revitalizing Postpartum and Post Abortion Family Planning services, enhanced focus on male participation, and community-based schemes through ASHAs, streamlining and strengthening commodity security, Public-Private Partnership etc. The government is also harnessing the expertise of various partners in the field of advocacy, capacity building, IEC and BCC through a new focused communications campaign, programme management, quality improvement, evaluation and assessments, feasibility studies, development of resource material and E-learning modules, software development, social marketing, social franchising and provision of skilled human resource for successful implementation of the programme.