Ondo govt, SFH partner on innovation for self-care in family planning methods 

… Train 12,852 women to self-inject

No less that 12,852 women of childbearing property person been trained successful Ondo State to presume power implicit their intersexual and reproductive wellness by adopting the contraceptive self-care method of household planning.

The women arsenic good arsenic wellness workers successful the authorities were trained done the collaboration of the Ondo State Ministry of Health with the Society for Family Health (SFH) nether a task tagged Delivering Innovation successful Self-Care (DISC), which lasted for 22 months.

During the dissemination of the state’s FP/DMPA show DISC task successful Akure, the authorities capital, the Social and Behavioural Change Coordinator for the Society for Family Health, Mr. Titus Michael, disclosed that the DISC task was a five-year intersexual and reproductive wellness programme implemented by Population Service International and the Society for Family Health, Nigeria.

According to Michael, the self-care attack was designed to revolutionise household readying practices by equipping women with the cognition and skills to administer contraceptive injections independently.

He said: “This task is looking towards ensuring that we person an upscale successful self-care successful the country. The DISC task was implemented successful 5 LGAs of the 18 section authorities areas of the state, namely Ile-Oluji, Akure South, Owo, Ondo West, and Akure North.

“The task commenced successful Ondo State successful December 2022 and terminated successful the archetypal 4th of 2024, and it was capable to scope astir 44,672 women successful the 18 section authorities areas, and astir 28,708 were referred for household planning.

“The programme has trained 45 facilities, 72 providers of work delivery, 18 M&E officers connected household readying information reporting, and 20 assemblage mobilizers.

On his part, the Commissioner for Health successful the state, Dr. Banji Ajaka, assured that the authorities authorities would proceed to supply household readying commodities to women betwixt the childbearing property and the property of 18 and the property of 18 crossed the 18 section assembly areas of the authorities arsenic portion of its recommendations successful the consequent fund successful the state.

Ajaka, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr. Adeniran Ikuomola, appreciated the Society for Family Health for their publication to the wellness indices of the state.

He said: “The authorities authorities volition bash everything to guarantee the occurrence of this project. The dissemination of the study of the DISC task volition promote america to follow it successful the authorities due to the fact that of the usefulness and affirmative effects that it is going to person connected our household readying services successful the state.

“The commodities volition beryllium made disposable successful the state, and we expect maximum practice from the partners successful supporting america to win too. The authorities volition bash everything imaginable to marque each of america comfy wrong the system.

The Family Planning Coordinator successful the Ondo State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (OSPHCDA), Mrs. Opeyemi Agunbiade, noted that determination has been astir 600 percent maturation successful the self-injection complaint successful Ondo State, portion reiterating that implicit 60 of each 100 women who opt for DMPA-SC arsenic their method of prime are self-injecting successfully nether the supervision of their wellness providers oregon astatine home.

Agunbiade explained further that DMPA-SC uptake grew by 60 per cent from 750 visits successful July 2022 to 1,232 visits successful January 2024, and the self-injection complaint besides grew from 8 percent to implicit 60 percent successful Q4. 2023.