The Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, has said Nigeria is
yet to harness the benefits of family planning despite the recent scale-up of
interventions.......
Professor Isaac Adewole He attributed this situation to poor
access to, and uptake of family planning services and commodities among
citizens. Speaking during the official launch of three reproductive health
documents/tools in Abuja on Tuesday, Adewole said:
“Though, delivery and uptake
of family planning services and commodities, I must caution that more work must
be done to achieve our objective of ensuring that women are supported to make
choices in their quest to meet their family planning needs.
“Currently, our
modern Contraceptive Prevalence Rate is 16.0% which is low. Furthermore, unmet
needs for family planning is high, it is estimated that 12.7% of women who wish
to delay or prevent a pregnancy are not using any form of family planning
method.
These are clear indications that the country is yet to fully harness
the benefits of family planning, despite the scale-up in interventions.” The
Minister further said that as part of efforts to reduce maternal morbidity and
mortality, the government was promoting a number of initiatives such as
training of health workers on life saving skills and family planning
technology; scaling-up of Antenatal and Postnatal visits, and skilled birth attendance; and promotion of Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (EmONC)
services.
“We have also developed, disseminated and are implementing approved
documents and tools on Family Planning/Reproductive Health programming.
These
tools will promote adherence to standards in the provision of information,
services and commodities in line with subsisting best practices,” Adewole
added.
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