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Recap of Family planning Friday (#FPFRIDAY) conversation We  Hosted Dr Olayinka Atobatele on this edition of FPFriday to discuss IUD benefits and other methods of contraceptives. Dr Olayinka Atobatele Oluwaseun. MBBS, MPH University of Liverpool. Currently a Public Health Specialist. Let's talk about family planning types especially IUD, can we know more about the benefits of using this method?  The IUD is a tiny T shape plastic or copper device with strings inserted into the uterus. Usually on insertion the strings are supposed to drop down into the cervix and the woman will be taught and instructed to check it regularly.  It can last up to and more than three years. Some Intrauterine Contraceptive Devices (IUDs/IUCDs) can even last for up to 10 years We know IUD can last up to 3 years in a woman's body, what are the signs to look out for in other to know when to go for check-up?   No. An IUD/IUCD does not interrupt the fun of se...

                                                                                 by OLASUPO Abideen Opeyemi May 15, 2018 D ear Mr. President It is with a heavy heart that I sit down to write Your Eminence. As a conscious, patriotic and progressive youth, I could not help but register my dissatisfaction with my country’s plight alongside a volley of plea to your administration to rescue this dire situation. Excuse the curtness of my manners. The intensity of my pain has almost robbed me entirely of formality. My passionate plea is not for a personal gain but for a revision of government’s position on issues of health, poverty and education, the individual components forming the fulcrum around which our collective development and glory as a nation revolve. Sir, I read ...

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...

Stakeholders call for Increase budget for Family planning As a strategy to control and avert the implication of rapid population growth in order to achieve sustainable development goals, stakeholders have called for increased budgetary allocation for family planning as Nigeria joins the rest of the work to mark 2017 World Population Day (WPD).  Speaking on the 2017 WPD theme, Family Planning, Birth Spacing: Empowering People, Developing Nations, in a recent release by National Population Commission (NPC), its Chairman, Chief Eze Duruiheoma, stated that family planning and birth spacing are measures to attain a sustainable family size by way of allowing for adequate intervals between births, employing especially the use of contraception. Eze said that, “Family planning is not only about saving lives but also empowering people and developing nations. Family and birth spacing are personal decisions but their profound implication on health, economic and social wellbeing of the socie...

Justiceforchisom : The family of late Chisom Jane Anekwe (nee Okereke) and LEAP Africa Alumni are demanding for justice following her painful death at the Magodo Specialist Hospital. The young mother of two daughters died on April 30th, 2017, while giving birth to her third child, a boy after a prolonged labour. Sadly, the baby also died. According to her family members and friends, Chisom was abandoned and left unattended to deal with labour pains and other pregnancy complications. she was  laid to rest in Awka, Anambra State today, May 16. Yet another report of a needless death by a Mother at the point of childbirth. Annually, 36,000 Nigerian women die in the process of childbirth, with 69 children out of 100,000 dying in the process of birth As a pregnant woman in Nigeria, should we begin to write our will when it is time to go in for delivery in Nigeria ???? On the   # Justiceforchisomcase   . First of all there are some very important informatio...

Malnutrition often starts with a pregnant woman lacking all the right nutrients and vitamins the fetus needs to grow. As the baby’s organs properly develop during the first five weeks of pregnancy, a mother needs to eat balanced diet for if the child becomes malnourished in the womb, the damage can be permanent.  According to UNICEF 90,000 children could die in the coming year, amounting to almost 250 child deaths each day,  unless the international and local community takes swift actio n.   " The world produces enough food to feed every man, woman and child on earth. Hunger and malnutrition therefore are not due to lack of food alone, but are also the consequences of poverty, inequality and misplaced priorities. ” – UNICEF Deputy Executive Director, Kul C. Gautam . Evidence has proven that Family planning can directly and indirectly affect the nutritional status of women,children and infants.  A good nutrition can improve the health of a pregnant w...