The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has donated four million female condoms to the Society for Family Health as part of universal access to female condom held at Ota, Ado/Odota Local Government Area of Ogun state.
During the official handover, Minister Of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, represented by the Head of the Reproductive Health Department of the Federal Ministry of Health, Dr. Bose Adeniran called for the strengthening of the family value system.
He also challenged youths to continue to live a healthy life in the bid to attain zero HIV/AIDS prevalence, reduce unwanted pregnancy, maternal and child mortality in the country, stressing the need for more synergy among development partners.
The Resident Representative of the UNFPA, Victoria Akyeampong while presenting the condoms challenged government at all levels and development partners to provide the much needed political will and harness resources to increase uptake of female condoms through evidence based interventions
first appeared on channelstv.com
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