World Population Day campaign launched in Kohima district

DIMAPUR — An event to observe World Population Day and launching a week-long awareness campaign on healthy birth spacing and family planning was held at the chief medical officer’s (CMO) conference hall in Kohima on July 11.

According to an update, the programme was held on the theme “Healthy timing and spacing between pregnancies for well-being of mother & child and to prevent unintended pregnancies", in collaboration with the District Health Society Kohima, National Health Mission.

District Programme Officer, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health plus Nutrition (RMNCAH+N), Dr. Khrievilhou Nakhro spoke on the importance of the World Population Day campaign, which runs from July 11 to the 18th.

He also highlighted family planning choices of methods under the “Saarthi on Wheels” initiative of Mission Parivar Vikas, which is carrying out ongoing activities.

Advocacy and awareness campaigns will be carried out across all blocks and villages under the Kohima district.

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The activities will include exhibitions on family planning methods, the use of contraceptives and other spacing methods, the need to delay marriage and first childbirth, counselling on the basket of choices, and motivating eligible couples to avail themselves of family planning services such as intrauterine contraceptive device and postpartum intrauterine contraceptive device insertions, condoms, tubectomy, and vasectomy, alongside raising awareness on HIV & AIDS.

During the campaign, key messages will be disseminated to the public, focusing on delaying the age of marriage, healthy spacing at birth, postpartum family planning, male participation in family planning, and post-abortion family planning.