2023-11-06 17:54:30
The kickoff of the national family planning week was given this Monday, November 6, 2023 in Kombissiri by the governor of the Center-South region, under the theme “National family planning week, more than 10 years of progress: the urgency to accelerate remains to achieve the SDGs with communities.”
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According to the resident representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Cheick Mohamed Tidiane Mbengue, the need for family planning in Burkina Faso is estimated at 16% of women. “ For us, it is a question of refocusing our efforts to best respond to the unmet needs in terms of family planning which represent approximately 16% of women of childbearing age. This constitutes a great challenge and calls upon us “, he admitted.
Cheick Mohamed Tidiane Mbengue, Deputy Resident Representative of UNFPA
He mentioned that the national planning week is one of the answers to this question of unmet need for family planning in the land of Men of Integrity. “ It constitutes an excellent opportunity for advocacy and social mobilization in favor of family planning but also and above all for intensifying the provision of services to populations, especially the most remote. This is why I would like to take advantage of this forum to once again salute this initiative as well as its regular operation since 2012. “, he added.
According to Yvette Nacoulma, governor of the Center-South region, family planning contributes to the development of all social classes and occupies a preponderant place in strategic choices in Burkina.
Yvette Nacoulma, governor of the Center-South region
« Also, it must be remembered again, it constitutes one of the inexpensive and profitable interventions in the fight against maternal, neonatal and infant-juvenile mortality and morbidity. It is one of the strategies for achieving the objectives of the national family planning plan 2021-2025 “, did she say.
She noted that despite the efforts made by the government and its partners, health indicators remain bleak as evidenced by “the following data: population of Burkina Faso: approximately 22,500,000 inhabitants, modern contraceptive prevalence rate (CPTm): 31.9%, unmet need for FP: 16.4%, total fertility rate (TFR): 4.4 children per woman, maternal mortality ratio: 222.9 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.
For Yvette Nacoulma, we must go further and faster in order to improve these indicators. She noted that the organization of the national family planning week contributes to strengthening the health system and provides the opportunity to raise awareness and encourage the greatest number of populations.
« Particularly the most vulnerable and those living in rural areas, to go to public health centers to benefit from quality family planning care and services in a context of total free since July 1, 2020 throughout the territory. national “, she recalled.
To conclude, she says she is asking customary and religious authorities, civil society, opinion leaders, the press, the population, particularly young people, for exemplary and positive mobilization for the success of this strategy “for the benefit of the populations.” , a strategy whose importance no longer needs to be demonstrated.”
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