The Federal Government has developed and disseminated a national self-care guideline on family planning services in 25 states in the country, as well as established a National Self-Care Coordination Committee under the National Reproductive Health Technical Working Group.
Officials of the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) disclosed this during a roundtable and dissemination close-out on Delivering Innovation in Self-Care (DISC) in Lagos, to discuss the interventions and challenges encountered, while upscaling demand generation, service delivery and catalytic impacts in the country.
They said the government has created an enabling policy environment for the introduction and scale-up of DISC, which was implemented to empower women of sexual and reproductive age to adopt the use of contraceptive self-care methods like DMPA-SC self-inject (SI) which got boosted from 13 to 40 per cent.
The initiative is part of the five-year…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
