Tag: family planning
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Family planning is solution to poverty in Nigeria – AAFP
Dr Ejike Oji, Chairman Association for the Advancement of Family Planning (AAFP) in Nigeria, on Monday said that family planning was a panacea to multidimensional poverty.
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World Contraception Day: NGOs, Lagos govt. collaborate to sensitize residents
A few non-government organisations (NGOs), on Wednesday, collaborated with Lagos Government to sensitize residents of Mushin area of Lagos on the importance of family planning.
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Delta State earmarks N50m for family planning
The Delta Government has appropriated N50 million to boost family planning in the State this year. The appropriation is coming on the heels of the withdrawal of The Challenge Initiative (TCI) from a four-year-old family planning programme in which it served as facilitator. TCI is owned by US-based Johns Hopkins Centre for Communication (CCP). At…
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FG introduces new product to scale up family planning
Minister of State for Health, Sen. Olorunimbe Mamora says the ministry will soon introduce the Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate Subcutaneous Injection (DMPA-SC) which allows self-injection in hard to reach places. Mamora disclosed this at a zoom meeting on the National Family Planning Media Campaign Launch in Abuja on Thursday He said it was an effort to…
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Recession: Gynaecologist advise Nigerians to embrace family planning
Prof. Suleiman Adeniran of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), has advised parents to embrace family planning to ease the effects of economic recession. Adeniran gave the advice in Ilorin on Friday during a presentation at a UITH Seminar on: “Economic Recession: A healthy way out’’. The gynaecologist described…
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Specialist urges Nigerians to embrace family planning
The Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), a German organization, has urged Nigerians to embrace family planning as a way of enhancing the quality of life in their families. It’s Country Representative, Mrs. Hildegard Behrendt-Kigozi, gave the advice in an interview in Abuja on Thursday. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, defines family planning as the practice of controlling…