Reproductive Health Care Strategy- A Gender Sensitive Approach to Family Welfare

Abstract

This essay advocates a reproductive health care strategy, to revitalize the country's family welfare program. A major shift in focus is needed in the population policy and programs in order to incorporate a gender-sensitive
approach. This should have the potential to enable attainment of a better health status for women and girl-children, hitherto suffering from institutionalized neglect.

The United Nations International conference For Population and Development (ICDP '94) helped produce a cogent rationale for the change of population and development policies. This placed women's empowerment, gender equality and equity in the center for a meaningful policy-scenario for a humane and sustainable development paradigm.