Pathfinder International has partnered Kaduna State Primary Healthcare Development Board, to train 32 health workers in the state on the use of female condoms as a way of preventing unintended pregnancies and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs).
The 32 health workers drawn from Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) across eight of the 23 local government areas of Kaduna State are Antenatal and Family Planning (FP) care givers.
Speaking at the training, Pathfinder International Programme Coordinator, Hauwa Usman said the training, which was in commemoration of the annual Global Female Condom Day, was aimed at empowering the health workers with skills to promote off-take of FC2 Female Condom among women against unintended pregnancy and STIs.
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She said the health workers would thereafter be organising outreaches in their respective PHCs to provide services to women of reproductive age in their communities, where they would be demonstrating the advantages of the female condom and how to use it.
In her own presentation, Pathfinder’s Programme Officer, Reproductive Health and Family Planning, Kosi Izundu, said, unlike the male condom, the female condom is not made from latex, but thin, strong plastic called polyurethane, which makes sex more enjoyable.
Representing the Kaduna State Primary Healthcare Development Board at the event, Safe Motherhood Coordinator, Habiba Ahmed Aliyu, said the training would increase access of clients (women of representative age) to more contraceptive options, with dual benefits of protection against unintended pregnancy and STIs.