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...might have meant something else altogether. It might have been surgery to have her Fallopian tubes cut so she could never have another child. Even though family planning had a bad reputation after the abandonment of the Gandhi government's coercive vasectomy program in the 1970s, states like Tamil Nadu still set birthrate targets and quietly instructed health-care workers to urge patients to be sterilized. The policy was often aimed at women rather than men. In fact, nurses earned bonuses based on how many sterilizations they encouraged. But this more subtle tactic never really worked. Patients balked...
...Tamil Nadu finally started dropping its by-the-numbers policy, setting an example that was later adopted by India as a whole. The change paralleled the consensus reached at the U.N.'s 1994 population conference in Cairo, which rejected target-based birth control in favor of giving women better health care and more family-planning choices...
...nervous as a nurse bends down to examine her. After losing two children at their birth, the 27-year-old farmer's wife is frightened for the baby that is due soon. Nirmala Palsamy, the nurse who is visiting this makeshift clinic in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is also worried. This fetus is in an incorrect position. "You know that you might need an operation, don't you?" she asks her patient. Mallai bursts into tears. Nirmala patiently explains that a caesarean surgery will help the baby. Then she makes a little joke and asks after...
...India finally has a more humane--and effective--population policy, much of the credit goes to people like Nirmala, 32, who heads the Village Health Nurse Association in Tamil Nadu. The typical nurse in the group zips around on a moped to visit 5,000 or more people under her care. Treating all sorts of ills and offering contraceptive tips, she leaves smiles on the faces of patients like Mallai...
...Nadu on the Moon" Friday August 12 at 7 p.m., Monday, August...