Nigeria: Stakeholders Discuss Funding Gap in Nigeria's Family Planning Sector

Nigeria's contraceptive coverage, indicated by the modern Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (mCPR), currently stands at a mere 16.6 per cent, and has stood at an average of 17 per cent for some time.

These were the findings of the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS). It is worth noting that this average is below the Nigerian government's national objective to achieve an mCPR of 27 per cent by the year 2023. Coverage and other indicators provide a glimpse of the state of Nigeria's family planning sector and are largely attributed to funding.

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