Family planning experts have said that maternal mortality remains “unacceptably high” despite the safe motherhood strategies in Nigeria.
The experts, however, said there was a need to increase the uptake of family planning services in the country to reduce maternal deaths.
According to them, Nigeria’s modern contraceptive prevalence rate, which is at 12 per cent, requires concerted efforts to be increased to 27 per cent in line with the Nigeria Family Planning 2030 agenda.
The experts who spoke on Tuesday at the Launch of Community-Oriented DMPA-SC/Self Injection Acceleration in Nigeria and Self-Care Accelerator Projects and Dissemination of the Resilient Accelerated Scale-up of DMPA-SC Self-Injection in Nigeria, said increased uptake in family planning services would help to achieve a low death rate and ensure a quality of life.
Speaking, an obstetrician and gynaecologist, Prof Oladapo Ladipo, said,…
