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Osun People Tasked On Promotion Of Family Planning Awareness – SBCC TWG

Osun state Social and Behavior Change Communication Technical Working Group has urged the residents of Osun state to intensify promotion of awareness on family planning to reduce the incidences of teenage pregnancy, unsafe abortion, sexually transmitted infections, maternal and morbidity rate.

The experts who spoke in Osogbo at a Quarterly Meeting, on Wednesday August 23rd for members of the team on Family Planning(FP), Adolescent and Youth Reproductive Health(AYSRH) organised by The Challenge Initiative (TCI) in collaboration with Ministry of Health, Osun State,

Noted that the creation of awareness on the sensitive issue is important to help people adopt healthy behaviours and to overcome social and structural barriers and improve their lives and those of their families.

Addressing participant, the FP Coordinator, Mrs Abatan Margaret Ololade, stated that the objective of the meeting include enlightening the public on Family Planning/Adolescent Youth Sexual Reproductive Health (FP/AYSRH) situation, spreading of FP in every households across the state.

In her lecture, She said adolescent and youth sexual reproductive health should be the concern of everybody because of its gravity on human health and existence.

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