WCD: More Women PoisedTo Accept Use Of Contraceptives

Ahead of tomorrow’s World Contraception Day (WCD), there are indications that more women of reproduction age would accept the use of contraceptives by the end of this month when the result of the monthly statistics comes out.
Giving this hint in an exclusive interview, the Desk Officer, Rivers State Primary Health Care Management Board, Theresa Timothy stated that the increase is due to the increased awareness created on family planning, resulting in users being more receptive to the various contraceptive methods.
Timothy, who spoke as part of tomorrow’s World Contraception Day, stated that “people have become more aware and confident about the various contraceptive methods adopted.
“They have also known the importance of planning for child birth, the number of children to have, and how best to space them”, she said.
According to her, increase in acceptance of contraceptive use is expected when the next quarterly contraceptive use statistics is released by the end of the 3rd quarter of 2019.
This expectation, she said was borne out of the fact that in the first quarter (January – March), the total number of new acceptors was 16,958, which puts the prevalence of people using contraception at 4.3 percent.
She continued that in the second quarter (April – June) 21,933 persons accepted to use contraception, making it 5.4 percent in prevalence.
The family planning desk officer continued, given that more partners in collaboration with the state government are getting involved in providing family planning commodities, there is hope of more acceptance in the use of contraception in the state.
She therefore called on women and their spouses to avail themselves of the opportunity to benefit from the development by accepting any identified suitable contraceptives methods.
This year’s World Contraception Day, which holds tomorrow has as its theme, “It’s your life, it’s your responsibility”.
According to Timothy, the focus is on creating more awareness on individual’s responsibility in accepting a contraceptive method.

Sogbeba Dokubo