Quinacrine acceptance spreads at NAVSFWi meet
Aggarwal, A.
Indian Medical Tribune 4(19): 1; 2
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0971-488X PMID: 12179200 Document Number: 307468
The 3rd World Congress and 11th Indian Conference on Family Welfare and Voluntary Sterilization and Family Welfare of India (NAVSFWI) was held at Hotel Clarks Shiraj, Agra, during September 20-22, 1996. At the conference, R.V. Bhatt, the newly elected president of NAVSFWI, expressed a need to look for alternative methods of female sterilization, such as quinacrine, because of the risks involved with surgical approaches. Dr. Bhatt added that quinacrine use as an alternative to surgical sterilization is safe, cheap, effective, and worthy of further trials, especially in rural areas, where surgery is not readily available. Dr. Elton Kessel, Secretary General of the International Federation for Family Health, stresses that no country has reduced population growth below 1% without the widespread use of both sterilization and abortion, together with other contraceptive methods. Quinacrine sterilization could satisfy much of the considerable unmet need for sterilization in India.