Year: 2019 Over 1215 rural-tribal women have adopted a modern alternative for menstrual hygiene — the menstrual cup, across villages of southern Rajasthan. This device has been provided as a low cost option through ARTH’s Community Health Entrepreneurs in 3 blocks and some urban areas of Udaipur and Rajsamand districts of the state.
Year: 2011 Intended Audience: ANMs, ASHAs, other health providers, women and men with high school education, public health advocates. Language: Hindi Key Message(s): A multi-colour four page brochure describing safe institutional delivery practices and answers to frequently-asked questions in regards to labour and delivery. It outlines many proper and safe techniques for each stage of labour to ensure the safety of both the mother and the newborn.
“Modern abortion techniques: safer, simpler and less expensive”
Year: 2010 Intended audience: Women and men with high school education, abortion providers, public health advocates, managers and policy makers. Language: Hindi Key message(s): A multi-colour four page brochure describing the modern techniques of abortion i.e. medical abortion and vacuum aspiration, which are safer, simpler and less expensive It informs about the advantages of the modern techniques over the older technique of dilatation & curettage (D&C). Download PDF
Set of 100 brochures is available at Rs.325 Postal charges extra
“Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act (MTP Act)”
Year: 2010 Intended audience: Women and men with high school education, abortion providers, public health advocates, managers and policy makers. Language: Hindi Key message(s): A multi-colour four page brochure that covers the salient features of India’s Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, which gives women access to safe abortion under certain circumstances. It touches on issues such as where safe abortion services can be accessed, registration of facilities, consent of women, confidentiality etc. Download PDF
“Avoid unsafe abortion”
Year: 2002 Intended audience: Rural women and men with basic literacy Language: Mewari (local dialect) Key message(s): Dangers of unsafe abortion; safe abortion services provided at ARTH health centre