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Friday, January 18, 2019

2018: Married Lagosians' uptake of contraceptives rose to 40.3% - NaijaAgroNet

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The centre of excellence, Lagos State, has improved on its uptake of all methods of Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR) which is now 33.1 per cent with married adoption at 40.3 per cent in 2018, reports NaijaAgroNet.

Disclosing this to NaijaAgroNet as outcome of the round 5 of the Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 (PMA2020) survey, in a family planning indicator briefing held in Lagos, Thursday by Pathfinders International, Dr. Funmilola OlaOlorun of Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan-Nigeria said that across board is 33.1 per cent, against 29.7 per cent in 2017.

She also said that the survey facilitated by Johns Hopkins University and Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, indicated that Lagos had increase uptake in the modern methods of CPR from 20.6 per cent to 22.7 per cent across all while married women uptake improved from 23.3 per cent in 2017 to 25.3 per cent as at 2018.

She told NaijaAgroNet that the survey was on all women and married between the ages of 15 and 49 years in the first quarter of 2018, stressing that for the Long Acting cum Permanent (LAP) Lagos witnessed a declined from 2017 all-time records from 4.2 per cent to 4.0 per cent for all and from 6.3 per cent the strictly married came down to 6.1 per cent for the period under review.

For the total unmet needs saw a decline from 15.2 per cent in all for 2017 to 12.3 per cent in 2018, while for limiting from 5.7 per cent to 4.4 per cent in 2018, even as the married indicators showed some 20.9 per cent was recorded in 2017 and has come down to 17.1 per cent for the total unmet needs.

Therefore, she posited that the spacing on family planning has reduced from 9.5 in 2017 to 7.8 per cent respectively for all and married recorded 12.3 and 10.6 per cents in that order.

However, the total demand, Dr. OlaOlorun said, has continued to soar from 56.7 per cent in 2017 to 58.0 per cent in 2018, whereas the demand satisfied by modern method rose from 45.8 per cent in 2017 to 49.8 per cent for all and left married women uptake at 44.0 per cent in 2018 from 41.1 per cent in 2017.

PMA2020, NaijaAgroNet gathered, uses innovative mobile technology to support low-cost, rapid-turnaround surveys to monitor key indicators for family planning via local universities led by the Centre for Research, Evaluation Resources and Development (CRERD) and Bayero University Kano.

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Pix: Dr. Funmilola OlaOlorun