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Nigeria records rising number of women using contraceptives

Nigeria records rising number of women using contraceptives

As teenage pregnancy continues to affect a lot of young people in impoverished communities across Nigeria, a new report published by Family Planning 2020 has revealed that a growing number of Nigerian women have started adopting modern contraceptives to guard against unwanted pregnancies and abortions.

The report indicates that an additional 1.7 million women in Nigeria have adopted modern contraceptive methods since 2012, accounting for 13.8 percent of women aged 15-49 overall. The method has succeeded in averting more than 2 million unwanted pregnancies and 735,000 unsafe abortions between July 2017 and July 2018.

The Executive Director of the group, Beth Schlachter said that as nations continue to build Universal Health Coverage (UHC) for their citizens, efforts need to be made to ensure that there’s easy access to comprehensive, free, and voluntary contraception for all women and girls.

She stressed that rights-based family planning and SRHR services must be integrated within primary health care systems.

“This is a core strategy for countries to improve the health and well being of their citizens and economy,” she concluded.

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Statistically, $8.5 million was spent on different family planning procedures in Nigeria in 2016 as compared to $19 million spent in Kenya. Despite the progress being made, the report alludes that one in four married women in the country have an unmet needs for contraceptives. This has invariably hampered their ability to practice effective birth control.

The report further urged the government to make adequate provisions for family planning so as to curtail the effects of overpopulation which is detrimental to socio-economic growth and national development.

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