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Nail Salon Workers Say Proper Ventilation Can Protect Their Reproductive Health
Photo Credit: WikimediaWhen 38-year-old nail salon worker Pabitra Dash recalls the physical pain she felt the first time she miscarried, she…
1 in 2 pregnancies in Nepal unintended
Photo: NISSI THAPAOver 600,000 pregnancies in Nepal in 2017 were unintended, close to two-third of which ended in abortion, reveals a new report…
Talking about life after menopause
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAAfter watching the Netflix drama Bombay Begums recently, I was encouraged to see that mainstream cinema has started giving…
Saving one Nepali mother at a time
Married at 15, Dhiru Bista has been either pregnant or lactating every year since. Of the 12 babies she gave birth to, only seven daughters are…
New contraceptive for increased lockdown demand
A woman gets Sayana Press suring the lockdown. Photo: IPAS NEPALFor the past two decades, Basanti Paudel, 41, of Nawalpur had always used…
3 Nepali mothers still die daily at childbirth
Photo: MARTY LOGANIt should not be surprising that Nepal’s first COVID-19 death was a new mother. What was surprising was to hear Prime Minister…
No conceivable reason for unwanted pregnancies
Lack of access to and awareness of family planning, the prevalence of unhealthy superstitions and taboos, and the desire to produce a son…
Who will save Nepal’s poor new mothers?
25-year-old Batu Chadara, from Dandabasa village, Pandusen was nine months pregnant and was going to return a rooster she had borrowed. Photos:…
Tipping point on menstrual banishment in Nepal
It is when local women take the lead to end the practice that it is most effective
Federalism leaves Nepal’s medical sector ailing
https://youtu.be/FmieAvLuWBoFederalism was supposed to bring the government closer to the people, decentralise medical care and improve public…
Nepal far from hitting contraceptive target
Social stigma, misconceptions still hamper access to birth control
Child marriage in Nepal: eloped at 13, mother by 17
Sita Pariyar is now 45, she has been married 30 years. Shanti BK married as a teen and is now 26. Asha Magar was married at 13, became a mother…
The curse of being new mothers
Dharma BudhaDharma Budha of Wai village of Bajura district gave birth to a baby three weeks ago inside a cowshed. She will stay in the dark,…
Communicating to remove menstrual taboo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezfdhBKEtsEGrowing up in Chitwan, Radha Paudel’s father used to tell her stories of faraway Jumla: how it took…
Nepal’s superwomen beat superstition
DEFYING TRADITION: This cow shed in Kailali used for menstural banishment. It has now been turned into a store room for rice husk.Media reports…
That time of the month
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRIThe practice of chhaupadi in which women in western Nepal are banished to cow sheds during their periods grabs a…
Back to the nipple in Nepal
Pics: NSIAvinashi Poudel, 30, is a mother of two, including a 10-week baby boy. She only breastfeeds her baby, and has supportive in-laws and a…
Nepali mothers and an Irish daughter
HEROINES: Nepal’s rural female health volunteers are at the forefront of protecting children and mothers and informing women about reproductive…
Let's talk about it
A Nepali Times survey shows adolescents want to know more about reproductive health, but don’t have anyone to turn…