Health • Created April 28, 2015 04:00

UK spends £100 million to prevent 2.5m unwanted pregnancies

Called Enhancing Nigeria’s Response (ENR) to HIV/AIDS, the programme also prevented 109,364 new HIV infections, said Bright Ekweremadu, team leader of the programme managed by Society for Family Health.The condoms and associated health promotion also helped prevent some 10,000 maternal deaths and years of contraceptive protection.More than 1.8 million people in eight high prevalence states–Akwa […]

UK spends £100 million to prevent 2.5m unwanted pregnancies
UK spends £100 million to prevent 2.5m unwanted pregnancies

Called Enhancing Nigeria’s Response (ENR) to HIV/AIDS, the programme also prevented 109,364 new HIV infections, said Bright Ekweremadu, team leader of the programme managed by Society for Family Health.
The condoms and associated health promotion also helped prevent some 10,000 maternal deaths and years of contraceptive protection.
More than 1.8 million people in eight high prevalence states–Akwa Ibom, Benue, Cross River, Kaduna, Lagos, Nasarawa, Ogun–tested and got results for HIV, according to data from the tail end of the programme in 2013 and early 2014.

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