Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics of Nigeria (SOGON) in collaboration with Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health At Scale (Pacfah@Scale) is working with selected media and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Kaduna state to improve the health of mothers and newborns especially in area of funding for child spacing.
Project Director of SOGON-PAS, Dr. Habib Sadauki while speaking at a two-day meeting with CSOs and media said the main concern of SOGON PAS projects is the health of mothers and newborns in the country.
He said the project emphasises how it can advance the health of mothers through child-spacing to check the problems of unplanned and unintended pregnancies.
Dr. Sadauki added that the main step in realising the goals of the group is to form coalitions of like minds CSOs who are drawn from different backgrounds on health of mothers and newborns activities.
“Our aim is to see how we can work with governments to improve funding of Child Spacing not only funding, but the release of the fund and it should be done on timely basis and the money should be used appropriately for the purpose it is meant for.
“We will also be identifying, as part of the objectives influential people in the state who will be our champions, working as influences when we go to speak to the executive governor of Kaduna state Mallam Nasir El Rufai.”
In her remark, Reproductive Health/Family Planning Coordinator, Kaduna State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Hajiya Nafisa Isah said the state will work with SOGON PAS in area of Child Spacing.
