Counselling Implication of Women Reproductive Health Needs in Minna, Niger State Nigeria

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume III, Issue VII, July 2019 | ISSN 2454–6186

Counselling Implication of Women Reproductive Health Needs in Minna, Niger State Nigeria

Halima Sadiya Abubakar (Ph.D)
Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education and Extension Services, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria

Abstract: – This study focuses on women reproductive health needs in Minna, Niger state with implications for counselling. This paper conceptualizes women reproductive health needs and counselling. It discusses Reproductive health needs, such as family planning, sexually transmitted diseases, and infertility. It also look into challenges of women reproductive health needs, like resources, burden of disease, impact on reproductive system and human right dimension. The paper listed some remedies to women reproductive health needs such as: women should be given access to appropriate safe, effective, affordable, accepted methods of family planning and satisfying safe sexual life as well as eliminating violence against women. Counselling implications include: provision of counselling services at public hospitals in Niger state. Such services should address issues such as negotiation with husbands in terms of improving health related behaviours of women reproductive health needs.

Keywords: Women, Reproductive Health, Needs, Counselling

I. INTRODUCTION

High rates of maternal and infant mortality, preterm births, as well as continuing disparities in pregnancy outcomes in Nigeria, have prompted a number of states Medicaid agencies to focus on improving the quality and continuity of care provided to women of childbearing age, Niger state inclusive. Many of these efforts have focused on implementing the national recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Institute of Medicine, which call for expanding people’s awareness of pregnancy-related health risks, the expanded use of preconception care to reduce those risks, and the extension of public and private health needs coverage to low-income women. Such efforts are particularly important for state Medicaid programmes, which finance at least half of births in each Local Government Area of the state and bear the financial burden of addressing adverse birth outcomes, including neonatal care for premature children. Design features of Medicaid programmes have complicated efforts to improve the quality of women’s health needs, as more than half of women whose maternity needs is financed by Medicaid lose coverage 60 days after giving birth.

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