Goals and Solutions
This is a picture of a
government building in India. This picture is courtesy of Webshots.com.
Some of the solutions are:
Quinacrine
Norplant
Intra- Uterina Device (IUD)
Abortion
Condoms
Sterilization
In India they are teaching young
girls about protection, relationships, and sex. They are building
more family planning centers (FPCs.)
They still plan to build more FPCs.
Many people from around the world go to countries and help build
homes for the poorer people.
India's government has some major
goals for their population. Their goals are:
- Lower the fertility rate to 2.1
by 2010
- Delivery of all births by trained
professionals
- Reduction of maternal mortality
to 100 per 1000
- Immunization of all children
against TB, polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, and measles.
- Reduce infant mortality rate
to one to four to 30 per 1000
- Containment of AIDS and STDs
- Preventing marriages of girls
under the age of 18
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