{"id":3484,"date":"2022-05-28T18:23:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T18:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whiteribbonalliance.org\/?p=3484"},"modified":"2022-06-02T21:33:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T21:33:30","slug":"nigeria-first-country-to-adopt-national-self-care-guideline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whiteribbonalliance.org\/stories\/nigeria-first-country-to-adopt-national-self-care-guideline\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria first country to adopt national self-care guideline\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thousands of women in Niger State, Nigeria told us that they wanted easy access to care and health services closer to their communities. Nothing embodies this request more than self-care \u2013 specifically, equipping women with the information and tools to manage their reproductive and maternal health in the comfort of their homes.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Women\u2019s demands coincided with the Federal Ministry of Health\u2019s renewed focus on self-care. Advocates brought women\u2019s perspectives to key policy forums including stakeholder consultations on self-care and government meetings to develop a national guideline. In 2021, Nigeria became the first country worldwide to adopt and implement a national self-care guideline. As of 2022, nearly half the states in Nigeria have committed to implementing the guideline and expanding access to self-care \u2013 from building awareness of healthy behaviors to increasing availability of self-administered products for contraception, HIV testing, cervical cancer screening, and more.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Already, women are seeing changes in their communities. For example, health tips are reported more frequently in the media and translated into local dialects and self-injection for contraception is more widely available. And women are increasingly able to make informed decisions and take health into their own hands.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>People have said \u2018this [self-care] is what we have been waiting for.\u2019 We are committed to provide the enabling environment to expand the use of self-care.<\/p><cite><strong>Dr. Olumuyiwa Ojo, National Professional Officer Maternal<\/strong><br>Sexual, and Reproductive Health, World Health Organization Nigeria&nbsp;<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>My request is for women to be educated on how to take good care of themselves before, during, and after childbirth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of women in Niger State, Nigeria told us that they wanted easy access to care and health services closer to their communities. Nothing embodies this request more than self-care \u2013 specifically, equipping women with the information and tools to manage their reproductive and maternal health in the comfort of their homes.&nbsp;&nbsp; Women\u2019s demands coincided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[55],"country":[18],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiteribbonalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiteribbonalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiteribbonalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiteribbonalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiteribbonalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whiteribbonalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4891,"href":"https:\/\/whiteribbonalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions\/4891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiteribbonalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiteribbonalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiteribbonalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiteribbonalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3484"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiteribbonalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=3484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}