Family Planning Association of India

In 1952, India became the first nation to include a nationwide family planning campaign in its first five-year plan. Meet Avabai Wadia, the lawyer who made this happen.

Dhanvanthi Rama Rau was the founder of the Family Planning Association of India, co-founder and president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, and a pioneer of women's autonomy through birth control. However, many remain unaware of her contribution to India becoming a global leader in family planning.

Getting married at 14 and pregnant at 16 is the usual course still decided for many girls in rural India. Here's how sex education is changing attitudes in a remote district in Madhya Pradesh.