Prior to COVID-19, the health sector in Nigeria was already reeling under challenges like high burden of maternal mortality, high infant mortality rate,
Also, the SDGs 3.7 demands, “By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes.”
Responding towards that direction, Nigerian government developed the family planning blueprint for 2020 to 2024, to tackle the challenges that have marred the uptake of family planning services in Nigeria. Other challenges as highlighted in the blueprint are commodity stock outs due to unavailability or poor quality of actual consumption data to determine the true commodity need, poorly implemented annual supply plans and irregular last mile distribution.
Furthermore, there is need to develop and roll out national family planning training plan, integrate family planning into primary healthcare centre opportunities and strengthen strategy for introduction of new contraceptives to improve service delivery and supply chain management. Other essential strategies are improvements of accountability and tracking of family planning, improvement of the quality and performance of family planning programmes at sub-national and facility level and strengthening national structures for coordination of family planning activities.
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