COVID-19: Release family planning funds to avert deaths – Group urge Niger Govt
The State Technical Working Group, TWG, on Child spacing and the Adolescent Youth Reproductive Health said if budgetary allocations are not released on time, it could lead to increased possibilities for complications and death among women in the state.
According to them, “The projects of the CIP, if implemented is expected to avert 250,000 unintended pregnancies, 90,000 abortions, and 2500 maternal deaths within 2018 and 2020, this will create a demographic dividend that boosts economic growth and breakout from the cycle of poverty.” “We call for the urgent release of Family Planning Funds to effectively provide adequate lifesaving reproductive healthcare and women’s protection services until the end of 2020”.
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