Nigeria

In case you missed today’s webinar, here’s the link to the recording and slides: https://tciurbanhealth.org/courses/nigeria-demand-generation/lessons/state-sbcc-committee/topic/webinar-local-approaches-to-driving-sustainable-demand-for-family-planning-in-nigeria/

Webinar: Local Approaches to Driving Sustainable Demand for Family Planning in Nigeria | The Challenge Initiative

Reminder about this Thursday’s webinar at 8am ET/1pm Nigeria time: We will be discussing Local Approaches for Sustained Demand for Family Planning Services. Please join us https://jh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nBvvIeNHTIGZh37wOwgSxg?mc_cid=6092239d30&mc_eid=551ef7d26c

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Driving Sustainable Demand in Nigeria. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Driving Sustainable Demand in Nigeria. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

In late May, TCI Nigeria’s Demand Generation (DG) team facilitated the gathering of more than 70 stakeholders from 10 TCI-supported states and 3 NURHI-supported states across the federation to participate in what was tagged the first ever Virtual Strategy Development Workshop in TCI Nigeria, using the online zoom and mural platforms. The workshop…[Read more]

In Nigeria, drug shops owners known as Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors (PPMVs) who used at least two family planning (FP) job aids were more likely to correctly answer key injectable contraceptive questions nine months after participating in standard FP training. In an article published in BMC Public Health, results from an Evidence P…[Read more]

The effect of job aids on knowledge retention among Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors trained to administer injectable contraceptives: longitudinal results from implementation science in Nigeria | The Evidence Project

Salut à toutes et à tous. Très heureux de rejoindre la communauté de pratique du groupe «Nigéria». La contribution de chacun de nous devrait permettre d’améliorer nos connaissances.

Hi all! I’m excited to report that a number of the adolescent and youth-specific advocacy and demand generation approaches have been added to the TCI Nigeria toolkit: https://tciurbanhealth.org/nigeria-toolkit/
– State Technical Working Group on Adolescent and Young People’s Health and Development
– Life Planning for Adolescents and Youth (…[Read more]

We are making progress in Nigeria but more work to be done, according to recent news article and report: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/health/362326-6-5m-nigerian-women-now-use-modern-contraceptives-report.html

6.5m Nigerian women now use modern contraceptives -- ReportA new report on family planning has shown that there has been an improvement in the use of modern contraceptive among women in Nigeria.

New technical brief on Facilitators and Barriers to Systematically Scaling-up Family Planning Task-Shifting and Task-Sharing of Contraceptive Implants in Cross River State, Nigeria: https://www.e2aproject.org/wp-content/uploads/Nigeria-scaleup-brief_final-pages-online.pdf