In respect of the SDG Goal No. 5, \u2018Achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls, he appealed that much efforts be directed to realizable.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do budget, but it doesn\u2019t speak to our issue. We make policy but don\u2019t implement it.\u00a0 Nigeria is not doing better as a nation. Our leaders have failed to prioritize the needful. Government is not investing much on health especially that of our women and children. How well you take care of your women and children speaks well of you as a nation. Not until we start doing things correctly, we would not get there\u201d. He ended.<\/p>\n
Earlier in her opening address, The Program Officer, Development Communications Network, Omobonike Adebayo had expressed worries over the alarming report of the World Health Organization (WHO) which says, \u201cstatistics of 2015 had estimated maternal death tolls in Nigeria to be fifty-eight (58,000) death annually, which constituted about 19 per cent of the global estimate of 303,000 maternal death.<\/p>\n
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The DHS Final Report, Nigeria 2008 says Adolescent fertility rate is high (121 reported births per 1,000 women aged 15\u201319 years) affecting not only young women and their children\u2019s health but also their long-term education and employment prospects.<\/p>\n
Births to women aged 15\u201319 years old have the highest risk of infant and child mortality as well as a higher risk of morbidity and mortality for the young<\/p>\n
mother.<\/p>\n
Also revealed is that, Unmet need for contraception is high at 20 percent.<\/p>\n
Women with unmet needs are those who are fecund and are sexually active but are not using any method of contraception and report not wanting any more children.<\/p>\n
These \u00a0reports she said had given them concern as such Development Communications Network (DEVCOMS) in collaboration with Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI) decided to\u00a0 organized a workshop in order to collaborate with the media to find possible way forward to changing the record.<\/p>\n
Omobonike charged the Bloggers and Social Media operators to give optimal attention to the prevailing situation by assisting in disseminating Information that would help in bringing about positive change.<\/p>\n
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