In India, the legal age at marriage for girls is 18, and for boys, 21. Yet child marriage is steeped in Indian culture. India has witnessed one of the largest declines in child marriage rates over the last decade, from nearly 50% to 27% for girls. While fewer Indian girls are marrying before the age of 15, rates of marriage have increased for girls
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In India, the legal age at marriage for girls is 18, and for boys, 21. Yet child marriage is steeped in Indian culture. India has witnessed one of the largest declines in child marriage rates over the last decade, from nearly 50% to 27% for girls. While fewer Indian girls are marrying before the age of 15, rates of marriage have increased for girls
Read MoreImage Courtesy: Livemint July 1st is World Doctor’s Day — an opportunity in the year to appreciate some of the heroes of our public health system. It’s also the perfect time to reflect on some of the things India’s public health system needs to do better in order to adequately support the heroic efforts of its workforce. So here’s a qui
Read MoreIn Mohammadpur slum just outside Gurgaon, where I was visiting Swasti’s i4We primary healthcare intervention, when men are asked about the role they play in family planning, they often respond like Manoj does in the video above: that the decision is left to their wife, and is no business of theirs. The data from NFHS-4 corroborates this: 35% of u
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