Abstracts Archive

Background/Objectives: About half of Nigeria's population resides in rural areas, where only 8% of women use modern family planning (FP), and gender norms restrict women's movement. This pilot aimed to increase rural access to FP and provide a sustainable model for the rural distribution of health...

Background: Globally, the emergence of the Covid -19 pandemic comes with great cost to all sectors of human endeavors. Among its impacts in Nigeria is inadequate attention to some basic health needs, including family planning, as a result of the huge diversion of health resources, including manpower...

BackgroundIn Bauchi, Kebbi, Ebonyi, and Sokoto States and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), women in remote underserved communities have limited access to family planning services. Innovative approaches to improve availability, access and utilization of family planning services are needed to pr...

Background Many healthcare providers do not have sufficient experience and skills to provide adequate and inclusive quality of care to young people because of lack of training to prepare them for caring for the sexual and reproductive healthcare needs of young people. The advent of the COVID-19 ...

A Mobile health application can help to disseminate educational health interventions be widely used. However, mobile health applications not carefully developed will likely not be adopted by the intended users. This paper describes the methodology used to develop a mobile health application for teac...

Introduction: In Nigeria, Contraceptive prevalence is 17% with limitations against adolescent uptake of Family Planning (FP) methods. Despite the training of multicadre providers on youth-friendly services, the number of young people receiving services at the health facilities in Lagos and Kano are...

BackgroundSelf-administered DMPA-SC offers opportunities to improve contraception. Injectables have become popular as it offers confidentiality to women. Features of effectiveness, reversibility and relatively long-acting effect add to their popularity. The DMPA-SC self-inject provides privacy and p...

BackgroundCOVID-19 caused unquantifiable disruptions in the healthcare system, family planning information and services inclusive. WHO reported that 70 of the 102 countries surveyed in 2020, had disruptions in FP services; Nigeria inclusive. Society for Family Health through her Deliveri...