The Federal government, leveraging on the existing functional primary health facilities in the country, has said it is increasing health facilities providing family planning services to 20,000 in recognition of its implications for people’s wellbeing.
Director, Family Health Department, Federal Ministry of Health, Dr Salma Anas-Kolo, who made the disclosure at a virtual meeting marking Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI) National Close-out and end of project dissemination, said the plan to increase the number of health facilities providing family planning services in the country is to foster a positive attitude about planning families.
Dr Anas-Kolo stated that the Federal Government is working hard to ensure that family planning commodities continue to reach communities to the last mile even as it resolves to ensure that family planning is institutionalised as a measure for birth spacing and population control.
Dr Anas-Kolo said that Nigeria’s goal of achieving modern contraceptive prevalence of 27 per cent by the end of this year by 2020 had been slowed down by the COVID-19 pandemic.
She added, “We will continue to implement minimal package for sexual and reproductive health, especially where humanitarian crisis has occurred, remove regulatory barriers and ensure access to new contraceptive methods.
“We will also continue investing in a robust accountability system that tracks and reports annually real-time domestic resource on FP expenditures both at the national and state levels.”
Dr Anas-Kolo also assured that the Federal Government will sustain all the legacy products and lessons learnt from the NURHI project as well as continue to scale up family planning services in the community.
Rodio Diallo, representative of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said the family planning is a smart, sensible and vital component of global health and development.
Diallo declared that the NURHI project was proof that a demand-led theory and data driven mixture of advocacy, service delivery and demand generation approaches could lead to family planning use in Nigeria.
Through the project, she said family planning message and services got to over three million women in reproductive age groups in primary health care facilities in six states, including Oyo, Lagos, Kwara, Kaduna, Edo and the federal Capital territory.
NURHI’s portfolio director, Dr Moji Odeku, stated that through the 10-year-long NURHI project, N280 million had been devoted to family planning interventions, over 4.5 million women and men received family planning information through social mobilisers to ensure a significant decrease in provider’s biases in all the health facilities involved in the project.
She said that aside from the improved quality of care and client satisfaction that was ensured over a five year period, more than 1.3 million women were reached with contraceptive methods during routine services and outreaches.
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