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BENIN: ABMS presents a new range of contraceptives.
The range of contraceptive products is expanding. A new method of contraception has indeed been made available to the populations. It is “Sayana Press” whose official launch took place this 26 September 2017 at the health center of Glo-Djigbé in the municipality of Abomey-Calavi. The mobilization was for the occasion very strong.
The context is special and the situation is very worrying. According to the latest data, Benin remains the sick child in the subregion in terms of implementation of family planning. Surrounding 8 out of 100 women adopt a contraceptive method according to the results of the 2011-2012 demographic health survey; a figure that places Benin in the last position in the subregion. Yet the benefits of family planning have been demonstrated. Efforts to improve the health of populations and accelerate development must therefore be strengthened. This justifies the introduction of the new method of contraception ” Sayana Press ” in the range of contraceptives in Benin. The Benin government, through the Ministry of Health, in collaboration with its network of partners, including USAID and the Beninese Association for Social Marketing and Communication for Health (ABMS), officially launched the program on September 26 . The ceremony brought together an impressive crowd in which we can identify crowned heads, religious dignitaries, politico-administrative authorities, PSI / ABMS staff, community relays, health workers, representatives of technical and financial partners.
Like other existing methods, Sayana Press is a contraceptive that “allows to have the number of children desired and at the right time”. It is injectable for a period of validity of 3 months. Its particularity is that it is available at least in all health facilities. From the USAID resident representative to the representative of the UNFPA resident representative through the political and administrative authorities, all welcomed the advent of this method by recalling the benefits of birth spacing for the development of a countries such as Benin. These include control of childbearing, control of infant, maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity, improving the health status of women, mothers, newborns and infants, child. That is why they urged people to appropriate this new method. The extension project of ” Sayana Press ” currently takes into account 6 health zones, 11 communes. It will be extended to other health zones by 2018 promises the representative of the Minister of Health, Landry Yansounou who also announced that the government plans to decree free family planning in the days to come.
Source: The Pharaons.com / By Polycarpe Hounsou
Sixty-four people including 49 civilians and 15 soldiers were killed Thursday, September 07, 2023 in two “terrorist attacks claimed” by Al Qaeda and targeting a passenger transport boat and an army base in northern Mali, where a three-day national mourning was decreed from Friday, the military-dominated government announced.
The two separate attacks targeted “the boat Timbuktu” on the Niger River and “the position of the army” in Bamba, in the region of Gao (north), with “a provisional toll of 49 civilians and 15 soldiers killed”, according to a government statement that does not specify how many people died on the ship and in the camp, assaults “claimed” by an Al-Qaeda-affiliated group.
Malian music star Salif Keïta has been appointed advisor to the head of the junta, Colonel Assimi Goïta, says a decree issued Monday, August 14, 2023.
The artist is part of a list of five people named “special advisers” to the Malian head of state, says the decree dated August 11. The text does not specify the role of Salif Keïta.
The great name of afropop and World Music, Salif Keïta, 73, also stands out for his political commitment and, since the advent of the colonels following a putsch in 2020, for his support of the junta.
He was appointed one week after the announcement of his resignation from an assembly set up by the military as a legislative body.
“I will always remain the undisputed friend of the military of my country,” he said in his letter of resignation read in the gallery.
Mr. Keïta publicly expressed his support for the sovereignty discourse of the authorities. He openly called a few months ago for the departure of the UN peacekeeping mission (MINUSMA), since officially announced by the UN Security Council.
Since 2012, Mali has been plagued by jihadist expansion and a deep multidimensional crisis. Violence from the north has spread to central Burkina Faso and neighbouring Niger.
The Senegalese head of state left Dakar for Abuja on Sunday, May 28, 2023. President Macky SALL will attend the inauguration of Nigerian President-elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Upon his departure, the President of the Republic was greeted by the Prime Minister and other civil and military authorities. The head of state will return to Dakar tomorrow Monday.
Born in Lagos eight years before independence, Bola Tinubu is a veteran of the capital. An influential politician, he was notably a senator and governor of the State of Lagos. Considered a unifying force within his party, but controversial outside because sometimes cited in corruption cases, Tinubu will have a major challenge, that of recovering the national economy.
With a population of more than 219.4 million people, Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and sixth in the world. The continent’s largest economy, however, is facing a slowdown exacerbated by recent global crises. Here inflation has risen above 20% in the second half of 2022, youth unemployment, recurrent shortages of nairas and fuel are all evils to be solved in a sustainable way.
Although Nigeria can count on a dynamic private sector with a large number of billionaires and millionaires, Bola Tinubu -whose inauguration will take place next May- will have to set the macroeconomic record straight.
Source : Ze-Africanews.com
