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Modern Contraceptive Use In Nigeria
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United State Agency for International Development (USAID): Assist in Reproductive Health and Family Planning.
Mac-Authur
Foundation: Primary Donors. (Funmi Adesokan 2014:482- 483; Reproductive
Health Nigeria, the enhance project June, 2005).
While family
planning has benefited much from the donor agencies/Nigerian Government,
much more is still expected in other to accord it the priority
considerations it deserves at all levels of government.
The act of
planning the family started back in America in 1912 by a Nurse called
Margaret Sanger. In recent decades, health workers have come to
recognize that apart from pure or safe water, healthy environment, and
balance diet; family planning is an essential component of good health
scheme and as unit in a health service which has been neglected to some
extent by both individuals and their various communities. This has
served as a leading factor towards high risk pregnancy, contributing to
the high mortality rate of mothers and children (FGN 1986, 1990, UNICEF
1994, Ladipo 1989, Anate 1986).
High fertility is associated with
high levels of material mortality, both because more pregnancies means
more chances of pregnancy related deaths and because the risks of
pregnancy and child birth increase after the third child. And yet in
many communities in Nigeria there is still a strong pressure on women to
bear many children despite the risk (family care international, 1991).
The
world Health Organization (WHO, 1997) defines family planning as “a way
of thinking and living that is adopted voluntarily upon the bases of
knowledge, attitude and responsible decision by individuals and couples
in order to promote health and welfare of the family, group and thus
contribute effectively to the social development of the countryâ€
(National Training Manual on Family Planning (NTMFP), 2004: pp 31).
Family
Planning was further defined to mean the action by individual and
couples to plan the numbers; training and spacing of children that they
want in order to promote the health and welfare of the family (G.O.
Sofoluwa, 1986).
Although Nigeria is rich in human and national
resources it is currently ranked among the 13 poorest countries in the
world nearly 66% of Nigerians live below the poverty line. This high
level of poverty especially among the rural population which further
limits access to quality health care and other basic (Reproduction
Health Nigeria, June 2005).
Furthermore looking at the high fertility
rate of Nigerian woman which is 5.7 birth per women though it varies
from zone to zone, we are mostly concerned with the high material and
child mortality rate as indicated by Nigerian Demographic Health Survey
(NDH) 2003, which shows that on woman dies every 10 minutes and about
54,000 women die every year due to complication related to pregnancy and
child birth (Reproductive Health survey, 2003; Reproductive Health
Nigeria, the enhance project June,2005).
National policy on
population for sustainable Development and Self Reliance Principle 3
stated everyone has the right to the enjoyment of highest attainable
standard of physical mental health including family planning (National
Training Manual on Family planning (NTMFP), 2014:pp. 22).
There exist
several types of family planning methods which fall under modern,
traditional and Natural methods. This research work will be focused on
modern contraceptives use in Nigeria with particular emphasis on Hausa
commonly in Katsina-Ala LGA Benue state. This is because a number of
factors have contributed to the non utilization of the modern
contraceptives which could be educational, religion, economy,
Traditional beliefs etc.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The reduction in population growth is believed to improve a country’s prospects for economic development which in turn is believe to enhance the country’s ability to improve the lives of its citizen. In case of Nigeria we can see the rapid growth of population which has been increasing in triple folds for example from fifty six (56) million people in 1963 to one hundred and sixty-seven (167) million in 2006 according to National population Commission (2011).There is no such socio ... Continue reading---
