The
Associate Director, Family Planning and Reproductive Health at Pathfinder
Nigeria, Dr. Habeeb Salami, has urged Nigerian media to ensure family planning
uptake in the country, reports NaijaAgroNet.
Salami in his opening remarks at a
one-day media parley on the 2017 fourth round survey of Performance, Monitoring
and Accountability (PMA2020) as part of the Lagos Family Planning (FP) Advocacy
Working group (PHSAI), and supported by Pathfinder International, said the
objective of the session was to engage the media and provide participants with
relevant information with regards to latest survey results.
This, he said, would avail media to
better
package their reportages toward advocating for improved family planning.
As
said by him, the session would also encourage media to link the data from Performance, Monitoring and Accountability (PMA2020) to family
planning with the anticipated outcome of reducing Maternal Mortality (MM).
He
pointed out on the need to draw attention to poor understanding and the role of
family planning in reducing maternal mortality.
Dr.
Salami reiterated the call on the media to do everything possible
professionally to make certain Nigeria continue to see increase in better
family planning.
NaijaAgroNet notes that PMA2020 and media parley also had supports
from the Federal Ministry of Health, National Population Commission, National
Bureau of Statistics, Lagos State Ministry of Health, Bill & Melinda Gates
Institute for Population and Reproductive Health (Johns Hopkins University) and
was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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