The United Nations Population Fund estimates there could be up to 276,000 pregnancies among in 2017 among women displaced in the north east by Boko Haram crisis, and has called for urgent protection of their reproductive health and rights.

Nearly 53 out of all people internally displaced across the most affected states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa are women and girls—and 1.73 million of them are of child bearing age, the Fund said.

“Our aim is to redouble efforts to ensure that their rights to access health care is protected and the Government have all the support they need to overcome overwhelming challenges” said Dr Babatunde Osotimehin, UNFPA’s executive director.

He and women affairs minister Aisha Alhassan undertook a joint mission to the north east to advocate for the reproductive health and rights of women and girls, and to closely align UNFPA support with domestic programmes and priorities.

The Fund raised concern amidst statistics that one Nigerian woman could die every 10 minutes from pregnancy-related conditions, insisting the deaths could be prevented if women and girls have access to education and reproductive health services, including family planning.

Risk of death is heightened in humanitarian crises that displace populations and undermine community social support mechanisms, limiting access to health facilities and workers to take care of women’s and girls’ special needs, said the Fund.

It said it remained committed to “full realisation of the sexual and reproductive health and rights of all women and girls in all conditions, crises or otherwise, at all times.”

Following meetings, Kaduna, Kano and Borno governments have vowed commitment to improve the future for girls.

Kano state governor Abdullahi Ganduje pledged to initiate steps to end early marriage, legally setting the age of marriage at 18 and ensure that girls stayed in school.

Kaduna unveiled a technical brief to harness its demographic dividend from a population with eight out of 10 people aged less than 35 years.

Kaduna state governor Nasir El-Rufai, in talks with Osotimehin, said, “The decision to ignore or harness their potential will determine if the population will be a liability or an asset. By this unveiling, we have initiated steps to do the latter.”

Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, thanked UNFPA for its humanitarian assistance and committed to protecting the rights of women and girls and their access to educations and reproductive health care.


Read more at http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/health/boko-haram-276-000-pregnancies-expected-this-year-in-north-east/181408.html#4iqQxbTmWxFxfxfq.99

haa

Is that why Buhari is reducing them with the Air Force

Hmm Oga oo

Hmmmmm

Huh!!!. Internally Displaced but stl fuckin widout protection to give birth to kids with ntn to offer dem. #AfricaIsReallyBackward.

Hmmmm.....nothing makes a man birth numerous children dan idleness!

What? any Blackberry charger for sale

Another scam pending..

276,000 haba

Workchop...

Op!

seriously

Observing....

Mcowubaba:
Is that why Buhari is reducing them with the Air Force

Haba!

My God. This Boko Harem guys are busy in the oza room.

Rabbit. Condoms should be distributed freely there to avoid new generation of almajiri

Sing with me.... everything na double double ehhh...

THE NORTH REMAINS A BURDEN ON NIGERIA.

In this time of recession they are getting pregnant.
NA WA O!

Without means of livelihood and proper plan to reintroduce them into the society...this is just another ticking time bomb in the nearest future.

Eko o 'ni baje!

What is the matter with this Hausa people? They have time to copulate when they should have been thinking of survival first

na waoh



Lugard you no try at all


all these things i wud have been reading on CNN

they just spray children everywhere with no plans for caring for them

276,000?

More terrorists to worry about.. Seriously we need to break away from these leeches

Recession: 500,000 abortions expected this year in Southern Nigeria.

Interesting

Exaggeration! Anyway I hope they will not be allowed to vote in 2019. We are watching

More boko harams in the making because the ideology that brought boko haram has not been addressed, just some terrorists killed..

Only the truth will set north free..

No food... where dem get strength to dey knack?

Are they trying to say everyone in the North eastern part of Nigeria are Boko Haram.

gbadexy:
Rabbit. Condoms should be distributed freely there to avoid new generation of almajiri

Seriously. Northerners love reproducing without planning on how to take care of the kids