family planning

Family planning experts from different health organisations in the country Wednesday decried the high rate of non-usage of contraceptive methods among Nigerians. The experts expressed their displeasure at the sub-group oral sessions of the ongoing 5th Nigeria Family Planning Conference in Abuja...

Family planning offers a lot to mothers, their babies, families, communities and society as a whole but one of the greatest challenges to reproductive advocacy is the unmet need for family planning services by millions of women in Nigeria and most poor resource countries. Many women require...

No form of emergency contraception is 100% effective (though the copper IUD comes close). So if your period is more than a week late, you might be pregnant. It’s hard to say exactly how effective each method actually is, especially since placebo-controlled studies would be super unethical here...

Great options but always consult a qualified medical doctor! Also, remember these techniques do not prevent you catching STI including HIV and Hepatitis.

The Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative, NUHRI, has recommended family planning methods for teenagers to restrict the high rate of pregnancy among them and secure their future. The Lagos State Team Leader of the initiative, Dr. Omasanjuwa Edun, said in Lagos that family planning...

The family planning clinics installed by the Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI) in selected Primary Healthcare Clinics (PHCs) in Lagos State are yielding the desired benefits, the users say. To assist Lagos State residents to attain quality life, NURHI in 2016 began a...

Ebonyi state Government has called on parents to desist from having more children than they can cater for. Commissioner for Health, Dr. Daniel Umezuruike, disclosed this in Abakaliki while inaugurating the state’s family planning advocacy working group. He said: “The only way surviving is...

According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), up to 225 million women, most of whom are Africans require family planning but are not on any form of it. If they had access to modern methods of family planning, as many as 24 million abortions, 6 million miscarriages, 70000 maternal...