The inability of the Plateau State government to allocate and release substantial amount of money for the provision of family planning services to women in need has been described as one of the gaps hampering the effective provision of such services in the State.

Each year in Nigeria, according to the Guttmacher report 2017, 61,000 women die from complications of birth and abortion or miscarriage. The report also notes that out of 1.3 million abortions in 2018, 85 percent are estimated to occur under unsafe conditions. 

Mrs Sakinat Azeez will not forget in a hurry her experience with her husband the first time she tried to initiate a discussion about family planning.  Sakinat said the encounter was discouraging and scary. She narrated her encounter with Good Health Weekly at one of the Primary Health Centres in Ijora.

A family planning expert, Dr Uwemedimo Esiet, has advised Nigerian women to adopt new reproductive health care products.

Worried about the myths and misconception surrounding family planning, Country Director of Pathfinder International Nigeria, Dr. Farouk Jega has dismissed insinuation that adopting family planning may cause the development of fibroid and infertility, saying it is safe for all women.