The Ekiti State Government has renewed its partnership with international health organisation Jhpiego to strengthen family‑planning services across the state, officials said in a joint statement.
Both parties affirmed their commitment to expanding access to contraceptives and related reproductive‑health care, aiming to reach more women and couples in urban and rural communities.
Ekiti, a southwestern state of Nigeria with a population of about 3.5 million, has been working to improve health outcomes as part of broader national goals to increase the modern contraceptive prevalence rate.
Jhpiego, a global nonprofit affiliated with Johns Hopkins University, brings technical expertise and programmatic support to the collaboration, drawing on its experience in delivering family‑planning services in low‑resource settings.
The renewed cooperation is expected to involve training health workers, supplying commodities and raising community awareness, although specific implementation details were not disclosed.
<small>Source: Punch Nigeria — read the original story there.</small>
