Healthcommunicators

A community woman being interviewed by our Journalists We (Devcoms, Healthcommng, Notagaincampaign) led a team of Journalist to Takwa Bay Community area in Lagos state yesterday to observe their state of maternal and health care challenges. When you hear of #TakwaBay what comes to mind is beautiful ocean, beach, boat rides but the reality is different when we got to the community. According to Baale of #TakwaBay over 250,000 people lives in this community, men, women and children. But #Takwabay community does not have a nepa/phcn Poll not to talk of having electricity since they started leaving there thousands of years ago. This simply means all the benefits of electricity has never been enjoyed in this community. Women deliver their babies in darkness. The community has a modern #healthcentre but without access to electricity things are not running smoothly especially for women and children. The only means of transportation to the community is via sea, ...

We hosted Dr. Anne who is a Public Health Physician. Dr Anne believes that “no woman should die on the occasion of bringing life” and so is committed to ensuring that women and girls have adequate information about their sexual & reproductive health to equip them to make informed choices that will safeguard their health.    Hello ma, nice to have you on #FPFriday can you give us  brief information about family planning services in Nigeria? Family planning is increasingly gaining more acceptance in Nigeria now compared to how it was in the past. More and more people are becoming more aware of the importance of family planning However, family planning indices show adoption rate is still low on the average in Nigeria. For instance, 15 percent of married women of reproductive age (15‒49) are not using any contraceptive method; however, only 10 percent of these women are using modern FP methods Family planning is a very sensitive issue; what is expecte...

Chioma Obinna, member, Media Advocacy Working Group (MAWG); Olusegun Omotayo Adeboye, member, Lagos Advocacy Working Group (LAWG) and Public Health Sustainable Advocacy Initiative(PHSAI); Angela Tony Iji, Ag. GM Southern Operation; Dele Fanimo, Chief Operating Officer of Leadership Newspaper; Chioma Umeha, Chairman, MAWG; Remmy Nweke, member, MAWG, DigitalSENSE; Shotomiwa Olubunmi, member, LAWG and PHSAI during the recent advocacy visit of Family Planning Media Advocacy Working Group (FPMAWG) to Leadership Lagos Office.  Family Planning Media Advocacy Working Group (FPMAWG), was set up in January 2018, by Pathfinder International as a media advocacy group to promote a balanced family life as part of efforts towards advancing nation building visited the Leadership Head Office and met with the The group objectives center on increasing the visibility of FP stories which in turns will galvanize support for the promotion of quality family life, which is why the group...