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These strategies enabled Sri Lanka to reduce the MMR by half every 6–12 years between 1930 and 1995. [17] In 2002, the MMR was 43 per 100,000 live births. [ 18 ] The estimated total fertility rate is 2.2 births per woman and population growth rate is 0.93%. [ 1 ]
Awards. Ramon Magsaysay Award, 1958. Mary Helen Rutnam (née Irwin; 2 June 1873 – 1962) [1] was a Canadian doctor, gynaecologist, suffragist, and pioneer of women's rights in Sri Lanka. [2] She became nationally recognised for her work in women's health and health education, birth control, prisoners' rights, and the temperance movement.
History of birth control. The history of birth control, also known as contraception and fertility control, refers to the methods or devices that have been historically used to prevent pregnancy. [1] Planning and provision of birth control is called family planning. [2] In some times and cultures, abortion had none of the stigma which it has ...
The history of Sri Lanka is unique because its relevance and richness extend beyond the areas of South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean. The early human remains which were found on the island of Sri Lanka date back to about 38,000 years ago (Balangoda Man). The historical period roughly begins in the 3rd century BCE, based on Pali ...
In demography, demographic transition is a phenomenon and theory which refers to the historical shift from high birth rates and high death rates to low birth rates and low death rates, as societies attain more technology, education (especially of women) and economic development. [1] The demographic transition has occurred in most of the world ...
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna[ a ] (JVP / PLF; lit.'People's Liberation Front') is a political party in Sri Lanka. [ 11 ] The party was formerly a revolutionary movement and was involved in two armed uprisings against the government of Sri Lanka: once in 1971 (SLFP), and another in 1987–89 (UNP). The motive for both uprisings was to establish a ...
The Sri Lankan independence movement was a peaceful political movement which was aimed at achieving independence and self-rule for the country of Sri Lanka, then British Ceylon, from the British Empire. The switch of powers was generally known as peaceful transfer of power from the British administration to Ceylon representatives, a phrase that ...
His father, Edmund R. Weerakoon and his mother, a teacher at Princess of Wales College, were both devout Anglicans.He was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 20 October 1930 and named after the legendary Australian cricketer Don Bradman who sailed to Colombo on the day of his birth.