A recent Supreme Court judgement is unwelcome and regressive for the women’s movement, especially for reproductive rights. When hearing an appeal in the Ghosh vs Ghosh divorce case, the court ruled on March 26, 2007: “If a husband submits himself for an operation of sterilisation without medical reasons and without the consent or knowledge of his wife and similarly if the wife undergoes vasecto...

<p><em><span lang="IN">The population of Indonesia, the majority whom are Muslims, automatically become participants in Family Planning Program. The Program has offered various contraceptives, some which allowed to be used by Muslims and those that not. Contraceptive devices for Muslim women IUD, Pills, Injectable Drugs, Implants, other traditional methods, while not Menstrual...

introduction: regret after sterilization, not only requires an expensive surgical procedure for recanalization, but also can affect the couples’ inter and intra-relationships. whence, undergoing sterilization in sistan and baluchestan has the lowest rate compared to other provinces, the habitants’ regret after sterilization may further discourage other volunteers of the procedures. therefore, t...

BACKGROUND Family planning has been defined in the framework of mothers and children plan as one of Primary Healthcare (PHC) details. Besides quantity, the quality of services, particularly in terms of ethics, such as observing individuals' privacy, is of great importance in offering family planning services. OBJECTIVE A preliminary study to gather information about the degree of medical ethi...

tubal ectopic hydatidiform mole is an uncommon but very important complication of pregnancy. the clinical manifestation is the same as ectopic pregnancy and in all of the cases management was the same as tubal ectopic pregnancy. we present a case of tubal ectopic pregnancy that after laparotomy and salpingectomy, pathologic examination reported hydatidiform mole within ectopic gestational tissu...

Family planning programmes initiated in the Islamic Republic of Iran from 1966 met with limited success. Following the 1986 census family planning was considered a priority and was supported by the country's leaders. Appropriate strategies based on the principles of health promotion led to an increase in the contraceptive prevalence rate among married women from 49.0% in 1989 to 73.8% in 2006. ...

A 26-year-old woman underwent bilateral tubectomy. Gross examination was unremarkable. On microscopic examination, a tumour was seen in one of the tubes, which measured 1 mm across. The tumour was located between the epithelial and the muscle layers and was composed of tubules lined by cuboidal to low columnar to flattened cells. The morphology was that of adenomatoid tumour. Subsequent section...

Using humane methods of troop capturing, 830 individuals belonging to 38 troops from 11 different locations were captured, out which vasectomy and tubectomy performed on 190 & 310 individuals, respectively. The rest the animals not fit for surgery as they too young, underweight, senile, or pregnant. After surgery, kept under observation post-operative care a day re-released along with same troo...

this descriptive study is carried out to determine the effectiveness of family planning programmes in iran for years 1991-96. the study revealed the following outlines: contraceptives prevalence rates increased from 42% to 67% during years 1991-96. zaro couples years of protection increased for norplant, injectable contraceptive, iud, vasectomy and tubectomy, but for candom it is decreased in y...