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Nigeria seeks funds for family planning
Friday, 18th June 2010
Nigeria is working towards achieving the United Nations' (UN)-set Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by 2015, but in order to meet the targets it needs to invest more money in family planning, it has been reported.
Busola Salako, co-ordinator of the Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative, said more attention needs to be paid to family planning issues in order to improve health, reports NEXT.
"Collective commitment and investment in maternal and neo-natal health, including family planning information and services, is required for repositioning family planning towards attainment of the MDGs related to maternal and newborn health in Nigeria," the news provider quoted Ms Salako as saying.
In Nigeria, around 96 infants per 1,000 live births die and the maternal mortality ratio - the annual number of deaths from pregnancy-related illnesses per 100,000 live births - was 1,100 in 2005, according to the latest data available from Unicef.
The MDGs from the UN aim to reduce maternal and infant mortality rates in developing countries around the globe.
Posted by Paul Robertson
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