The availability of family planning services, enables girls and women to make informed choices about birth spacing and their desired family size. It also contributes to improved sexual and reproductive health and the wellbeing of children, women, and families. Many sexually active women are still not empowered to make informed choices in developing countries like Nigeria. This is often because they do not have access to the information they need, the poor availability of reproductive health services or negative myths and misconceptions about contraceptive use.
The Nigeria Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI), a project implemented by the Johns Hopkins University Centre for Communication Programs (JHUCCP) was launched in 2009 with funding by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). Its objective was to make family planning a social norm, ensuring that no woman of reproductive age is denied access to the desired family planning services they need. To mark the end of the NURHI 2 Project, virtual dissemination meetings were organised by the Kaduna, Lagos and Oyo State' Ministries of Health and the Federal Ministry of Health in collaboration with NURHI, themed: NURHI Project -- A Decade of Repositioning Family Planning for Childbirth Spacing, Proof of Concept, Innovation, Successes, Learning and Sustainability.
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