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| {{short description|Symbol for contraceptive services, particularly in developing countries}}
| | #REDIRECT [[Red triangle (family planning)]] |
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| [[Image:Red Triangle.svg|thumb|150px|right|The Red Triangle indicates family planning products and services]] | |
| <!-- Commented out because image was deleted: [[Image:Rt-lifechoices01.PNG|thumb|right|The "Life Choices" variant of the Red Triangle used in Ghana]] -->[[File:Stamp_of_India_-_1987_-_Colnect_1017632_-_1_-_Family_Planning.jpeg|thumb|Family planning stamp of India with the [[Red Triangle, Family Planning|Red Triangle]], 1987]]
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| An inverted '''Red Triangle''' is the symbol for [[family planning]] health and [[contraception]] services, much as the [[red cross]] is a symbol for medical services.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}} It is especially prevalent in many developing nations such as [[India]], [[Ghana]], [[Gambia]], [[Zimbabwe]], [[Egypt]] and [[Thailand]], where it can be seen outside shops and clinics that offer family planning products, and as in commercial and government messages that promote reproductive health services and population control. It is frequently placed on contraceptive products, such as [[condoms]], [[Diaphragm (contraceptive)|diaphragms]], [[spermicide|spermicidal gel]], and [[IUD]]s (for instance, on the government-subsidized [[Nirodh]] condoms in India and Sultan condoms in Gambia).
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| ==Origins and variations==
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| The red triangle was adopted by [[Deep Tyagi Alias Dharmendra Tyagi Resident of Village Azamgarh urf Ratangarh Near block Noorpur of District Bijnor]], an [[Family planning in India|Indian family planning]] official and activist in the 1960s.<ref>{{cite book|title= From government to grass-roots reform: the Ford Foundation's population programmes in South Asia, 1959–1981|author=Kathleen D. McCarthy|publisher=Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Volume 6, Number 3, Springer Netherlands|year=1995}}</ref> Several variations on the basic symbol have since been developed,<ref>{{cite web|title=National family planning logos|url=http://www.coreinitiative.org/Resources/Materials/index.php?sp=CORE_HCM_search&adv=mat&step=results&key=Family+Planning|accessdate=2007-12-23|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080213033502/http://www.coreinitiative.org/Resources/Materials/index.php?sp=CORE_HCM_search&adv=mat&step=results&key=Family+Planning|archivedate=2008-02-13}}</ref> such as the "Life Choices" and "Family Planning: better life" logos used to promote birth control and reproductive [[health in Ghana]], and the "Naissances Desirables" logo used in [[Zaire|Zaire/Congo]]. The "Men Too" (shortened from "Family Planning is for Everybody ... Men Too") campaign in [[Australia]] used a hollow red triangle. The "Stop and think Minyawi : This is a very happy family, a light family" initiative in Egypt used calligraphic [[Arabic]] script to create the triangle.
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| ==See also==
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| *[[Birth control]]
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| *[[Reproductive health]]
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| ==References==
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| == Further reading ==
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| * "Population Dynamics: Causes and Consequences of World Demographic Change," [[Ralph Thomlinson]], Random House, 1976.
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| ==External links==
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| *[http://www.m-mc.org/mmc_search.php?sp=&ref_crmb=&ref_id=&step=results&view=detail&detail_id=TD_GHA_104&adv=mat Ghana's Life Choices program]
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| [[Category:Birth control in India]]
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| [[Category:Human gender and sexuality symbols]]
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