Red Triangle, Family Planning
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. 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 IUDs (for instance, on the government-subsidized Nirodh condoms in India and Sultan condoms in Gambia). Origins and variations 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. Several variations on the basic ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]