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Stakeholders seek self-Injection to prevent unwanted pregnancy 

By Moyosore Salami, Ibadan
11 December 2022   |   3:34 am
Stakeholders have urged Nigerians to embrace self-injection to reduce Nigeria’s currently unacceptable maternal mortality rate.

[FILES] Pregnancy. photo: Shutterstock

Stakeholders have urged Nigerians to embrace self-injection to reduce Nigeria’s currently unacceptable maternal mortality rate.
 
They gave this charge during the two-day capacity building training on data management for local council family planning supervisors and monitoring and evaluation officers in Oyo, Niger, and Lagos states organised by the Society for Family Health (SFH) through its Delivering Innovation in Self-Care (DISC) project in collaboration with John Snow International (JSI).
 
The Chief Programme and Quality Officer, SFH, Dr. Anthony Nwala, said that the training aimed at identifying data management gaps and strengthening the capacities of key stakeholders to provide high-quality data.
 


He said that family planning which has to do with self-injection will help improve access and create opportunities for women to take control of their health, and make better decisions regarding their health.
 
Nwala noted that Nigeria had embraced Universal Health Coverage (UHC), and one of the vehicles to attaining the UHC is self-care.
 
“We are using the self-injectable contraceptive to demonstrate the importance of self-care in achieving UHC in Nigeria. Among the gains of self-injection are the facts that it saves time, and promotes privacy and confidentiality.”
 
The Senior Programme Officer, John Snow International (JSI), Olajimi Olatunji, said that the importance of the training was to ensure family planning supervisors and evaluation officers across the local councils in Oyo state have a robust understanding of the use of data tools for accurate data output.
 
Olatunji added that self-care family planning would give women greater access to overcome socio-cultural barriers being faced in managing sexual and reproductive health.
 
He, however, urged the participants to cooperate to ensure that the right data is collected to improve family planning in the state.

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