Reducing unplanned pregnancies and maternal death through the promotion of health literacy for informed decisions and access to quality health services
Commitment description:Reducing unplanned pregnancies and maternal death through the promotion of health literacy for informed decisions and access to quality health services is a viable reason to invest in sexual and reproductive health as only 1 in 6 women in Nigeria use any form of contraception and on a yearly basis 1.25 million Nigerian women have an abortion based on data from the WHO and Guttmacher Institute. Specific Programmatic action will be to provide health education and sensitization towards reducing maternal deaths due to unplanned pregnancies/STI/HIV and also provide quality family planning services and STI/HIV prevention services for adolescent girls and women of child bearing age between the age of 15 years to 49 years, a one year target between 2020 and 2021 will be to provide this services to 1000 adolescent girls and women of child bearing age. Services will be provided on a cost effective platform, where fees are subsidized as the organization is a hybrid social enterprise organization. monitoring and evaluation will provide program guidance and aid in making informed programmatic decisions.
Mode of engagement:
- Programmatic actionAid in providing access to integrated solutions including 1)health literacy and sensitization for the prevention of unplanned pregnancies. 2) Service provision and access to affordable family planning. 3) Access to HIV and STI messages and tools.
Achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health as a part of universal health coverage (UHC)(4) Access for all adolescents and youth, especially girls, to comprehensive and age-responsive information, education and adolescent-friendly comprehensive, quality and timely services to be able to make free and informed decisions and choices about their sexuality and reproductive lives, to adequately protect themselves from unintended pregnancies, all forms of sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices, sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS, to facilitate a safe transition into adulthood.
