Health, Population and Nutrition

U.S. Ambassador Launches Project to Improve Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services in the Private Sector

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United States Ambassador Terence McCulley launching the SPSFPRH project
Ambassador McCulley inspecting healthcare literature during the launch
03/13/2012
On February 23, United States Ambassador Terence McCulley was joined by senior federal and state level Government of Nigeria officials in Lagos to launch the Strengthening Private Sector Family Planning and Reproductive Health project. This five-year project aims to increase the role of Nigeria’s private health care providers in provision of quality family planning and reproductive health services to Nigerians. The total estimated cost of the project is US$15.4 million. It will be executed in Lagos, Kano and Kaduna States

Malaria Faces a Tough Challenge with the Launch of MAPS in Nigeria

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Ambassador McCulley, USAID Mission Director Dana Mansuri and Mrs.Dooshima Suswan
12/15/2011

Fighting Malaria scourge in Nigeria is taking a different dimension as a new Malaria Action Program for States (MAPS) was launched in Abuja by the U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria Terence McCulley on December 6.
Seven states—Zamfara, Ebonyi, Benue, Oyo, Nasarawa, Cross River and one other to be identified in the future—are participating in the new U.S. Government health initiative.

Women will no longer die giving birth - An initiative by three volunteers

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Hauwa Baba learns to listen to listen to fetal heart sound using a fetoscope
Weighing a new born baby at Boto Health Center, Bauchi State.
12/14/2011
Having witnessed the risks associated with deliveries from home as well as a shortage of manpower at the Boto general hospital in Bauchi state, 45 year old Hauwa Bala (and two other women) offered to assist health services providers to improve services provided to clients at Boto health facility. Hauwa gave birth to all of her ten children (she lost two) at home using traditional herbs with assistance from a traditional birth attendant.

Expanded Social Marketing Project Launched in Nigeria

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Ambassador McCulley and Professor Chukwu
11/21/2011
ABUJA -- The United States Government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is partnering with the Society for Family Health, Nigeria, Association for Family and Reproductive Health, BBC World Service Trust and Population Services International to implement a new project; the Expanded Social Marketing Project in Nigeria (ESMPIN). This project is a 5-year $56.3 Million USAID funded project that began in April 5, 2011.

Government of Nigeria Expands Treatment and Care for Fistula Patients

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Medical Director Dr. Iloegben Sunday-Adeoye conducting USAID staff around the ne
08/11/2011

Growing up as a young girl in south-eastern Nigeria, Josephine Elechi, wife of the Governor of Ebonyi State, noticed many women being ostracized by their communities because they suffered from obstetric fistula. She remembers promising herself that she would do something to reduce the needless deaths of women during childbirth and the discrimination against women affected by fistula.  Fistula is the result of prolonged labor without prompt medical intervention, resulting in damage to the woman’s birth canal, causing chronic incontinence and in many cases, death of the baby.

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