<p>As part of World Population Day celebrations on July 11, the state health department will organise awareness campaigns and counselling programmes.</p>.<p>The programmes are divided into two categories — mobilisation fortnight from June 27 to July 10, and population stabilisation fortnight from July 11 to 24 — based on guidelines from the union health ministry.</p>.<p>During the mobilisation fortnight, awareness on family planning will be generated through mass media and digital platforms with a focus on messages such as delaying the age of marriage, healthy spacing between births, male participation in family planning, and postpartum and post-abortion family planning.</p>.<p>ASHAs may be mobilised for counselling and door-to-door delivery of contraceptives. Also, vans will be arranged at the district and block levels to go from village to village, spreading the message of family planning.</p>.<p>Officials at various levels are expected to organise meetings and chalk out activities.</p>.<p>During the population stabilisation fortnight, people will be counselled about family planning options available to them, and the district authorities will prepare a calender for service provisioning by various teams.</p>.<p>According to a press release from the department, the availability of contraceptives at all types of government health facilities would be ensured. Between 2020-21 and 2022-23, the department provided sterilisation services to over nine lakh women and 2,168 men. And another 14 lakh people opted for temporary sterilisation methods such as condoms, oral contraceptives and injections.</p>.<p>As per data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5), Karnataka had a total fertility rate (TFR) of 1.7. There was an unmet need for contraception among 6.5% of women. Also, sterilisation rates were high among women at 57.4%, but nil among men.</p>
<p>As part of World Population Day celebrations on July 11, the state health department will organise awareness campaigns and counselling programmes.</p>.<p>The programmes are divided into two categories — mobilisation fortnight from June 27 to July 10, and population stabilisation fortnight from July 11 to 24 — based on guidelines from the union health ministry.</p>.<p>During the mobilisation fortnight, awareness on family planning will be generated through mass media and digital platforms with a focus on messages such as delaying the age of marriage, healthy spacing between births, male participation in family planning, and postpartum and post-abortion family planning.</p>.<p>ASHAs may be mobilised for counselling and door-to-door delivery of contraceptives. Also, vans will be arranged at the district and block levels to go from village to village, spreading the message of family planning.</p>.<p>Officials at various levels are expected to organise meetings and chalk out activities.</p>.<p>During the population stabilisation fortnight, people will be counselled about family planning options available to them, and the district authorities will prepare a calender for service provisioning by various teams.</p>.<p>According to a press release from the department, the availability of contraceptives at all types of government health facilities would be ensured. Between 2020-21 and 2022-23, the department provided sterilisation services to over nine lakh women and 2,168 men. And another 14 lakh people opted for temporary sterilisation methods such as condoms, oral contraceptives and injections.</p>.<p>As per data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5), Karnataka had a total fertility rate (TFR) of 1.7. There was an unmet need for contraception among 6.5% of women. Also, sterilisation rates were high among women at 57.4%, but nil among men.</p>