COVID-19: ‘Overcoming barriers to family planning access non-negotiable’
By Chioma Obinna One major aim of Family Planning 2020 partners is to end the unmet needs for family planning, by 2030, however, the COVID-19 pandemic has stalled progress towards the achievement of the global goal. The reasons may not be unconnected with gaps in the country’s health system including the fact that family planning […]
Lagos housewives speak out: Family planning is our life saver…
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.
Our husbands want sex, not family planning — Lagos housewives cry out
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.
Family planning saves lives, reduces maternal mortality, abortion – expert
A family planning expert, Dr Uwemedimo Esiet, has advised Nigerian women to adopt new reproductive health care products.
Family planning does not cause infertility, fibroid — Dr Farouk Jega
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.
LASG seeks increased participation of private sector in family planning
The Lagos State Government has called for increased participation of private health facilities in family planning services to enable the state achieved a target of 74 percent contraceptive prevalence rate, CPR, by 2020.
