Which country was among the first to initiate national action plans and programs for Reproductive Health?

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India was amongst the first countries in the world to initiate action plans and programmes at a national level to attain total Reproductive Health as a social goal. T hese programmes called ‘family planning’ were initiated in 1951 and were periodically assessed over the past decades. Improved programmes covering wider reproduction-related areas are currently in operation under the popular name ‘Reproductive and Child Health Care (RCH) programmes’. Creating awareness among people about various reproduction related a