Red Triangle, Family Planning
- 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, as well as commercial and government messages that promote reproductive health services and population control. It is also frequently placed on contraceptive products, such as condoms, diaphragms, 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 invented by Deep Tyagi, an Indian family planning official and activist in the 1960s [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] . Several variations on the basic symbol have since been developed [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] , 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/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.
ee also
*Birth control
*Reproductive health
References
External links
*"Population Dynamics: Causes and Consequences of World Demographic Change," Ralph Thomlinson, Random House, 1976.
*Ghana's Life Choices program, http://www.m-mc.org/mmc_search.php?sp=&ref_crmb=&ref_id=&step=results&view=detail&detail_id=TD_GHA_104&adv=mat
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