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Service providers step up counseling services By Gabriel Olawale At the antenatal section of Oak Hospital in Ikorodu area of Lagos state, Mummy Peace, a mother of four, related how her resolve to stop childbearing has been truncated by the COVID-19 pandemic. As she lamented the hardship of caring for her four children under the
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Dr Ejike Oji, the Chairman of the Technical Management Committee of the Association for the Advancement of Family Planning (AAFP) says myths and misconceptions around modern contraceptives prevent women from commencing or continuing the use of Family Planning (FP) methods in Nigeria. Family Planning is the act of regulating a man or a woman’s ability to impregnate
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Mrs Hussaina Salisu, a 54-year-old woman, who had 15 children from single births, has advised young mothers to carefully plan their families so as not to jeopardise the future of their children. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the woman, who had her first child at 14, gave birth to the 15 children
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…Water, toilet facilities in bad shape By Marie-Therese Nanlong Appalling health facilities in many hospitals and clinics have forced women in dire need of family planning services to shun such hospitals, apparently to avoid contacting other health challenges. One of the health facilities captured by Arewa Voice correspondent in Nasarawa Gwong in Jos North Local
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By Abdulmumin Murtala – Kano Hajara Asabe, a mother of seven has been married for only eight years and is living a low-key life and struggling to not only cater to her children but also to attend to the unending domestic chores, including catering for the husband. She gave birth to the first four children
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30 years old mother of eight, Mrs. Stephen had earlier in the year expressed her ignorance about reproductive health issues to this reporter and was counselled on the need to approach a Primary Health Centre in her native Kwall, Bassa local government area of Plateau State for assistance on such.
Read More Chioma Obinna As the world continues to battle the outbreak of COVID-19, a family planning expert has called for actions to sustain progress made in sexual and reproductive health as well as the need to check unintended pregnancies, reduce maternal deaths, and population explosion. Speaking during a webinar on the 2020 World Population Day with
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Reduces risk for endometrial cancer, ovarian tumours, STI others By Chioma Obinna Obstetrics and Gynaecology experts have disclosed that consistent use of family planning will reduce maternal and newborn deaths in Nigeria by 30 per cent as well as reduced risks for diseases such as endometrial cancer, ovarian tumours including cancer, and sexually transmitted infection
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Some childbearing age women in Niger are now accessing family planning following the lockdown imposed by the State Government to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mrs. Hassana Amos, the Assistant Officer in Charge of the Family Unit at the Family Support Programme (FSP), a Primary Health Care facility in the Limawa area of
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Families especially those in Northern Nigeria have been advised to imbibe the habit of planning their homes and not give birth to children beyond their capacity to cater for.
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