tailieunhanh - REPORT OF THE WORKING GROUP ON POPULATION STABILIZATION FOR THE ELEVENTH FIVE YEAR PLAN (2007-2012)

In a separate celebration, KEMRI’s Kilifi branch organized an event where the town’s residents participated in song and dance to emphasize the importance of vaccines, good nutrition and a clean environment as essential elements in the fight against pneumonia. Event participants were encouraged to immunize their children against the leading causes of pneumonia and were also offered free, on-site health care services including check-ups, immunization and antibiotic treatment. Kenya introduced the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) nationwide in early 2011 with support from the GAVI Alliance | REPORT OF THE WORKING GROUP ON POPULATION STABILIZATION FOR THE ELEVENTH FIVE YEAR PLAN 2007-2012 JT jli fl-1 GOVERNMENT OF INDIA PLANNING COMMISSION NEW DELHI Chapter 1 Introduction India s successive five-year plans have provided the policy framework and funding for the development of nationwide health care infrastructure and manpower. In 1951 India became the first country in the world to launch a family planning programme to check the population growth. Since then the family planning programme in India has undergone variety of forms. The passive clinic-based approach of the 1950s gave way to a more proactive extension approach in the early 1960s. The late 1960s saw the emergence of a time-bound target-oriented approach with a massive effort to promote the use of IUDs and condoms. This was followed by even more forceful camp approach to promote male sterilization in the 1970s. The excesses of these campaigns lead to a severe backlash from which it took years for the programme to recover. After re-christened as Family Welfare Programme in 1978 maternal and child health services began to receive greater attention under the programme s plan of action. The centrally funded programme has been providing the states additional infrastructure manpower and consumables needed for the delivery of services. In the 1990s Government of India began to reorient the programme in the light of recommendations made by a subcommittee of the National Development Council an expert group headed by Dr. M. S. Swaminathan and more specifically to address the concerns expressed at the International Conference on Population and Development held at Cairo in 1994. Following a major review undertaken with the support of the World Bank and other agencies in 1994-95 method-specific contraceptives targets were abolished and the emphasis shifted to decentralized planning at district level based on community needs assessment and implementation of programmes aimed at fulfilling unmet needs. The first