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Promoting maternal health through family planning in Nigeria

A A Opaneye

    Journal of the Royal Society of Health
    |December 1, 1989
    PubMed

    In 1987, Nigeria embarked on family health initiative as a matter of policy to improve maternal and child health. The prevalent rate of use of modern method of contraceptives for the whole nation is about 6% whereas the figure for high school teachers in Remo division of Ogun state is 44.8%. High school teachers are respected in the various communities and occupy middle grade socio-economic status. As the link between the youths and the adult population there is a role for them to play in the family health initiative in the country.

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