In the last decade, several international and national movements have focused their attention, on the long neglected areas of women's reproductive health.
India's efforts to promote family planning have produced a significant increase in the couple protection rate (CPR) which has increased by about 33 percent during the last 22 years-from 10.4 percent in 1970 to 43.5 in 1992.
There is a growing recognition that gynaecological morbidity is an important health problem among poor women in India.