Author(s): Rathnamala M. Desai
India is a developing country with a population of 1.24 billion. Women’s healthcare in India poses two major problems - fertility control and chronic anemia. According to the National Family Health Survey- 3 (NHFS-3) only 49% of the currently married women aged 15-49 yrs use modern contraceptives. Female sterilization is the main type of contraceptive. Two-thirds of women using contraception are sterilized. More than half the women would be sterilized by age of 26 years.