Lifeline Case of the 13-year-old with IUCD
SOME months ago, a 13-year-old girl turned up at the Family Planning Clinic in one of the Mother & Child Centres, MCCs, in Lagos. Family planning providers were shocked to discover, on examination, that the unnamed girl had a contraceptive device—the Intra-Uterine Contraceptive Device, IUCD (a.k.a The Coil) inserted as a fertility control method.

