How Nigeria can curb population explosion
Friday, August 16, 2019
Nigeria’s population, according to experts, is growing at a scary rate. Ugandan journalist Shifa Mwesigye, in this report for The Nation, examines the way out of this challenge.
Population
LASG seeks increased participation of private sector in family planning
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
The Lagos State Government has called for increase participation of private health facilities in family planning services to enable the state achiever a target of 74 percent contraceptive prevalent rate, CPR, by 2020.
Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/01/lasg-seeks-increased-participation-o...
Half of world’s population can’t get basic health services – WHO
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says half of the world’s population is unable to access essential health services and many others are forced into extreme poverty by having to pay for healthcare they cannot afford.
The UN said the world population was estimated to have reached 7.6 billion as of December 2017.
The UN estimates it will further increase to 11.2 billion by the year 2100.
Federal government raises alarm over Nigeria’s population growth
Monday, December 11, 2017
Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, over the weekend raised a fresh alarm over Nigeria’s rate of population growth.
According to him, if the rate was unchecked, the explosion in the nation’s population would impact negatively on the country’s economy and welfare.
To this end, Adewole called for the use of Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWS) to address the problems of shortage and misdistribution of manpower needed for the provision of access to family planning services in rural communities and other hard to reach areas.
The struggle for health in Nigeria
Sunday, October 30, 2016
By Ogoh Alubo
Family Planning: About 40,000 women, 241,000 new-born die annually in Nigeria - Expert
Sunday, October 23, 2016
By Theo Adegoke
A professor of obstetrics and gynaecology, and Country Director, JHpiego Corporation, Prof Emmanuel Otolorin has raised an alarm that about 40,000 women and 241,000 new-born die in Nigeria annually from pregnancy and other related complications.
Speaking at the weekend during a Family Planning Media Roundtable in Abuja, he said lack of family planning accounted for 610,000 abortions, a rate of 25 abortions per 1000 women aged 15 – 44.
