Family Planning: Tackling Teenage Pregnancies, Deaths In Lagos Through Prompt Budget Release
S ome Civil Society Organisations(CSOs) and other stakeholders have warned that delay in the release of family planning funds is responsible for high-risk sexual behaviour and social malaise among young people. The groups which include the Pathfinder International, Media Advocacy Working Group, MAWG, and the Public Health Sustainable Advocacy Working Group, PHSAI, made the call recently, during a dialogue to mark the Word Contraception Day. In a presentation, the Chairman, PHSAI, Barrister Ayo Adebusoye, explained that prompt release of family planning funds by the state government would help in preventing high-risk sexual behaviour among young people. Similarly, Adebusoye said that efforts by the State to develop its annual budget in line with family planning Costed Implementation Plan (CIP) would tackle ugly social consequences of high-risk sexual behaviours among them. Adebusoye listi ng the consequences said, “Delay in acting fast is responsible for the increasing rate of teenage p