Abstracts Archive

Background/Objective: There are concerted efforts to halt down population growth and reduce maternal and child mortality rate in Nigeria through family planning. Studies show that these efforts have not been yielding the desired results. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and the sevent...

BackgroundDespite growing awareness on contraception and current global and national programmatic initiatives to improve contraceptive utilization, demand for modern contraception especially in Nigeria still persists. Side effects, myths, misconceptions, cost and service accessibility are known cau...

Background/ObjectivesIn Nigeria, the situation of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) mirrored worse than the global incidence. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic about 1 in every 2 Nigeria women have experienced one form of gender-based violence or the other (Hum Angle, 2022). The situati...

ABSTRACTBackground: The early sexual debut of adolescents predisposes them to unplanned pregnancy, maternal mortality, VVF, STIs and HIV/AIDS. Early marriages, school dropout, sexual abuse are also some common negative outcomes. Lack of awareness, access, fear of stigma, and backlash are common bar...

Background: Nigeria's modern contraceptive prevalence rate (mCPR) increased from 9.8% (2013) to 12% (2018), however family planning (FP) unmet need high at 19%. To address this, the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) led the introduction of new Reproductive Health (RH) commodities in the country. Pr...

Oral presentation1. Background/ObjectivesWest Africa has a large number of sexually active youth, often debuting during adolescence, with limited means of protecting their sexuality. Access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information, including family planning (FP) is generally low as is use...

Background: Rivers State is one of the states in the Niger Delta region with a population of over eight (8) million people. Over 22% of these populations are women of reproductive age requiring family planning services. Our journey to step up the uptake of family planning services in the state bega...

Innovative approaches to improve FP service delivery: Exploring a business case for PPMVs participation in achieving increased uptake of modern contraceptivesAuthors: Uchenna Igbokwe, Uchenna Okafor, Amina Baba-Ari, Boniface IgomuAddress: Solina Center for International Development and Research...

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...

BackgroundArticle 25 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities affirms that 'persons with disabilities have the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health without discrimination on the basis of disability' and to access 'the same range, qual...

ABSTRACTBACKGROUND :Young people in Nigeria lack access to contraceptive information and services that are tailored to their needs. Only one out of three young women in Nigeria, ages 15 to 24 who have a need for family planning are currently using a modern contraceptive method and this proporti...

BackgroundGlobally there are over 7.9 billion persons of which 16.7% are Adolescents and Young People (AYP), 90% of whom live in low-developing countries, with 40% from Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest pregnancy rate (218 per 1,000 women), lowest rate of contraceptive use and about 33 abor...

Background/ObjectivesSelf-injection (SI) of DMPA-SC presents a unique value proposition for the use of the product (Osinowo, et al., 2020). Unfortunately, this practice is still low in Nigeria. As important stakeholders at the state level, family planning (FP) managers are key in reducing the bottle...

Background: Adolescents make poor decisions about their sexuality due to religious-social-cultural beliefs and poor parental involvement. These pose threats to their transition from this delicate phase of life to adulthood resulting poor health outcomes. Marie Stopes Nigeria trained private health ...

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BackgroundComprehensive sex education is essential to prepare adolescents for life in a changing world. It improves sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes and promotes safe and gender-equitable environments. With increasing number of out-of-school adolescents, the task becomes evident via for...

Background LGBTQi+ adolescents and young persons experience inequitable health service provision for contraception in public health facilities due to their gender, age, biological sexuality and sexual orientation, and the discriminatory behaviors and attitude of the community and of healthcare p...

Background/ObjectivesMany adolescents intend to avoid and delay pregnancy but lack the knowledge and resources tomake decisions regarding their reproductive health. At the global, national and subnationallevels, efforts are made to ensure that data gaps in Family Planning and adolescents are closed....

Background/ObjectivesOver the years, the acceptance and practice of family planning within the reproductive age group of 15-45 in Nigeria has been slow with only 17% of women taking it up and 15.1% not having access to family planning. The aim of this research is to point out and analyze sustainable...

Background/Significance: Despite efforts geared toward improving the reproductive health status of women In Nigeria, the modern contraceptive prevalence rate (mCPr) is still very low at 12.0% (NDHS2018). The Society for Family Health in partnership Federal Ministry of Health leveraged the CHiPs prog...

Background: Access to child spacing services in northern Nigeria is hindered by social norms and poor male engagement among other barriers. These norms dictate how men define wealth and the value placed on women. A wealthy man is defined by the number of children he has and those with large family a...

Background/Objectives: The need for evidence-based practice in the FP Programme has been acknowledged at the State policy level; however, routine data management processes did not transmit to effective data use. The Challenge Initiative (TCI) provided technical assistance to the State to implement h...

Background/ObjectivesDuring COVID-19, resources for health funds were diverted to mitigate the impact of the pandemic, which led to a deprioritisation of other health service delivery areas, including reproductive health services. For example, The Lagos family planning (FP) funds expended in 2020 re...

BackgroundAdolescent girls face unique reproductive health challenges like early marriage, early age at first birth, and low contraceptive uptake with a higher unmet need for contraceptives among married adolescents compared to older married women. Anecdotal evidence from A360 project show that...

BackgroundReproductive health programs for women have largely overlooked young first-time mothers (YFTMs).To address this gap, we implemented the PoPCare program through a series of interventions aimed at increasing access to and uptake of post-pregnancy modern contraception among YFTMs (15-24 years...

Indi-Genius podcast series, implemented from May to September 2022, provided a platform for young indigenous family planning/reproductive health leaders in Nigeria and Niger Republic to share their local knowledge and best practices in Family Planning/Reproductive Health programming through creative...

By: Nwangwu Eudora OgechukwuIn Nigeria, there is a high level of social injustice and violations of the fundamental human rights of vulnerable groups, especially women.[1] Women, in general, are disproportionately affected by poverty, HIV and AIDS, gender-based violence; sexual and reproductive righ...

Background/ObjectivesMenstrual Health (MH) is an integral part of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Recent findings from LMICs suggest that < 50% of women reported having everything needed to manage their periods. This has spurred interest in demonstrating MH's importance as determin...

The Indi-Genius podcast series, implemented from May 2022 to September 2022, was created to provide a platform for young indigenous family planning/reproductive health leaders in Nigeria and Niger Republic to share their local knowledge and best practices in Family Planning/Reproductive Health progr...

Background Our communities are bedeviled with many problems, including stigma associated with safe abortion, rape, defilement, neglect by the spouse, intimate partner violence etc leading to morbidity and mortality of Adolescents. Adolescents who receive good sex education are more likely to de...