The intrauterine devices, worth over N10 million, were given in support of family planning services in the state.
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Increased sexuality and sex adventures among adolescents, underage youths, heightened by the current, unbridled access to technological devices has made it necessary to seek for corresponding remedial actions to save the children’s future.
The TWG in a meeting over the weekend at Gidan Matasa, Minna with the support of the development Research and Project Centre (dRPC) under the Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health At Scale (PACFaH@Scale) project, said that such feat will rid FP unit of the challenges of having her budget lumped with other programmes.
Family planning is the act of regulating a man or a woman’s ability to impregnate or become pregnant through the use of some commodities or devices.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the woman, who had her first child at 14, gave birth to the 15 children over a period of 28 years, with no record of multiple births.
This was as they expressed concern over the inadequate funding for the sector, leading to increased possibilities for complications and death among women in the state.
The call was part of the outcome of the ongoing Technical and Thematic Training Workshop organised by Breakthrough Action, Nigeria with support from the United States Agency for International Development in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State
A family planning expert, Dr. Uwemedimo Esiet, has advised Nigerian women to adopt new reproductive health care products.
To safeguard the health of Nigerians, especially mothers, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Nigeria, says there is urgent need for the Federal Government to increase domestic funding for health services and care, especially in Family Planning.
Osibanjo made this known at the fifth Nigerian Family Planning Conference on Tuesday in Abuja.
The organisation said this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Abuja.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, launched the documents in Abuja.
The Director, Family Health Planning, Federal Ministry of Health, Dr. Abebimpe Adebiyi, said during a news conference on Friday in Abuja that the campaign would close the contraceptive gap in the country
The UNFPA’s Country Representative, Dr Diene Keita, disclosed this at an event to mark the 2017 World Population Day on Tuesday in Abuja.
Dr. Ejike Orji, the Local Organising Committee Chairman for the conference, said family planning has been universally recognised as one of the key pillars and most effective means of achieving safe motherhood